US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Rotatable TEM grid holder for improved FIB thinning process" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,960, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Rotatable TEM grid holder for improved FIB thinning process" was invented by Xiaochen Zhu (Milpitas, Calif.), Norman Lay (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lito De La Rama (San Jose, Calif.) and Jimmy Yeh (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotatable transmission electron microscope (TEM) grid holder includes first and second legs orthogonally positioned with respect to each other. Each clamp holder leg is configured to be received within a hole in a main stage supporting the rotatable TEM grid holder. When the first leg of the clamp holder is affi...