US Patent Issued to JEOL on Nov. 25 for "Specimen processing holder and specimen processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,629, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to JEOL Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Specimen processing holder and specimen processing method" was invented by Yoshikazu Sasaki (Tokyo), Tomohisa Fukuda (Tokyo), Tomohiro Mihira (Tokyo), Norimasa Sakuta (Tokyo), Misumi Kadoi (Tokyo) and Tatsuhito Kimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holder includes a first sub holder configured to hold a primary specimen, and a second sub holder configured to hold a support member. The primary specimen is processed in a first state where the holder is disposed within a first specimen processing apparatus. Subsequently, in a second state where the holder is disposed w...