ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,791, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Orbotech Ltd. (Yavne, Israel).
"Vertical motion axis for imaging optical head" was invented by Tal Goichman (Kiryat Ono, Israel), Ashkan Aghajani (Yavne, Israel) and Arkady Bronfman (Yavne, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A translation stage may include a first plate and a second plate moveable with respect to the first plate along a vertical direction. The stage may also include one or more magnetic counterbalances opposing the weight of the second plate, where at least one of the one or more magnetic counterbalances comprises a tunable magnetic counterbalance. A tunable magnetic counter...