US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Microscopy on May 13 for "Particle beam device, method for operating the particle beam device and computer program product" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,461, issued on May 13, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Particle beam device, method for operating the particle beam device and computer program product" was invented by Bjorn Gamm (Koenigsbronn, Germany) and Erik Essers (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particle beam device has a particle source, an extraction stop, an anode stop and a beam tube. A driver system of the particle beam device is configured to apply an electrical excitation stop potential to the extraction stop, to apply an electrical anode stop potential, able to be set in a variable manner, to the anode stop and to apply an e...