US Patent Issued to OXFORD INSTRUMENTS NANOTECHNOLOGY TOOLS on Jan. 20 for "Sample preparation method and apparatus" (British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,629, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to OXFORD INSTRUMENTS NANOTECHNOLOGY TOOLS Ltd. (Oxon, Great Britain).

"Sample preparation method and apparatus" was invented by John Lindsay (Abingdon, Great Britain), Patrick Trimby (Abingdon, Great Britain), Peter Statham (Abingdon, Great Britain), Niels-Henrik Schmidt (Paderborn, Germany) and Knud Thomsen (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of preparing a sample for analysis. The method comprises: providing a sample comprising a surface region of interest on a first face of the sample and a second face oriented at an angle to the first face abou...