ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,422, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FEI Co. (Hillsboro, Ore.).
"Charged particle optics components and their fabrication" was invented by Ali Mohammadi-Gheidari (Best, Netherlands), Alexander Henstra (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Luigi Mele (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to an electrode component with at least two electrodes or a multipole component as generally known in the art. Each of the electrodes can be provided with a beam neighboring section or end section forming the free electrodes. This section is the section exposed to high voltages, i.e. more than 10 KV, and is i...