US Patent Issued to FEI on May 20 for "Methods and systems for determining the absolute structure of crystal" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,119, issued on May 20, was assigned to FEI Co. (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Methods and systems for determining the absolute structure of crystal" was invented by Stefano Vespucci (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Bart Buijsse (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The crystal structure is determined based on one or more second electron diffraction patterns acquired at selected zone axes at which the strength of dynamical effect is strong. The zone axes are selected by ranking the accessible zone axes determined from multiple first electron diffraction patterns."

The patent was filed on Sept. 7, 2022, under Application No. 17/939,...