ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,509, issued on July 21, was assigned to OXFORD INSTRUMENTS NANOTECHNOLOGY TOOLS Ltd. (High Wycombe, Great Britain).
"Live chemical imaging with multiple detectors" was invented by Anthony Hyde (Abingdon, Great Britain), Peter Stratham (Abingdon, Great Britain), Philippe Pinard (Abingdon, Great Britain), Simon Burgess (Abingdon, Great Britain) and Haithem Mansour (Abingdon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for analysing a specimen in a microscope is provided. The method comprises: acquiring a series of compound image frames using an electron detector, a first X-ray detector, and a second X-ray detector, wherein th...