ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,119, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Science Corp. (Tokyo).

"Computer, program, and charged particle beam processing system" was invented by Ayana Muraki (Tokyo), Tatsuya Asahata (Tokyo), Satoshi Tomimatsu (Tokyo) and Makoto Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a computer, a program, and a charged particle beam processing system, with which it is possible to reduce adjustment and setting work of conditions for observation or machining by an operator in an FIB-SEM composite device. This computer comprises: an information acquisition unit that acquires information related to a r...