US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Microscopy on April 22 for "Material processing method and material processing system for performing the method" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,445, issued on April 22, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Material processing method and material processing system for performing the method" was invented by Stephan Hiller (Koenigsbronn-Zang, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material processing system includes a particle beam column for directing a particle beam at a first processing region and a laser scanner for directing a laser beam at a second processing region. A method for operating the material processing system includes: scanning a first mark placed on an object with the particle beam; scanning the first mark with the laser beam for a fir...