US Patent Issued to FEI on Sept. 15 for "Multiple input split ring resonator ion beam source" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,456, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to FEI Co. (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Multiple input split ring resonator ion beam source" was invented by Sean M. Kellogg (Portland, Ore.), John Stiller (Beaverton, Ore.) and James Hendershot (Grant's Pass, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of charged particle beam systems, components, and methods for extracting charged particles from a gas are described. In a first aspect, A charged particle source includes a resonator. The resonator can include a dielectric substrate defining a first side and a second side, the second side opposite the first side. The resonator can include a first cond...