ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,732, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FEI Co. (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Automated beam on edge vibration analysis" was invented by Scott Connors (Hillsboro, Ore.), Joseph M Lebow (Hillsboro, Ore.), Sophia Weeks (Hillsboro, Ore.), Rehan A Khwaja (Hillsboro, Ore.), Vincent Baker (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Matthew Whiteside (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are scientific instrument support systems, as well as related methods, apparatus, computing devices, and computer-readable media. In some embodiments, a support apparatus for a scientific instrument includes a processing device and an interface device. The proce...