US Patent Issued to FIBICS on March 18 for "Fiducial guided cross-sectioning and lamella preparation with tomographic data collection" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,044, issued on March 18, was assigned to FIBICS Inc. (Ontario, Canada).

"Fiducial guided cross-sectioning and lamella preparation with tomographic data collection" was invented by Michael William Phaneuf (Ottawa) and Ken Guillaume Lagarec (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Linear fiducials with known angles relative to each other are formed such that their structures appear in a cross-sectional face of the sample as a distinct structure. Therefore, when imaging the cross-section face during the cross-sectioning operation, the distance between the identified structures allows unique identification of the position of the cross-sec...