ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,072, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Operating a particle beam apparatus" was invented by Bjoern Gamm (Koenigsbronn, Germany) and Christian Birle (Deiningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particle beam apparatus is used for imaging, processing and/or analyzing an object. A computer program product may be used to facilitate imaging, processing and/or analyzing the object. A magnification may be chosen from a first magnification range of the particle beam apparatus by driving a first amplifier unit and a second amplifier unit. If it is established that there are prerequisites w...