US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 21 for "Orientation tool for electron backscatter diffraction" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,275, issued on April 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Orientation tool for electron backscatter diffraction" was invented by Chelsea Edge (Ferndale, Mich.), Melissa Rose Galant (Clawson, Mich.) and Wei Wu (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orientation tool for orienting a sample mount having a sample for evaluation by a scanning electron microscope using an electron backscatter diffraction detector includes a body having a bottom surface and a top surface, an angled flat face extending from the bottom surface to the top surface, and a mount portion formed in the body between the top sur...