US Patent Issued to FEI Deutschland on Aug. 26 for "Systems and methods for motorized adjustment of objective lens correction collar" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,342, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to FEI Deutschland GmbH (Germany).

"Systems and methods for motorized adjustment of objective lens correction collar" was invented by Rainer Daum (Wessling, Germany), Xaver Voegele (Seehausen, Germany) and Gerrit Pahl (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for selectively adjusting an objective lens correction collar includes a gear ring sized and shaped to fit about a correction collar of an objective lens. The system also includes an adjustment mechanism that has a motor operably connected to a complementary gear configured to selectively engage and cause movement of the gear ring, ther...