ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,241, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TECHINSIGHTS INC. (Ottawa).

"System and method for image segmentation from sparse particle impingement data" was invented by Christopher Pawlowicz (Ontario, Canada), Michael Green (Ontario, Canada), Alexander Sorkin (Ontario, Canada), Christopher Kumar Anand (Ontario, Canada), Nabil David Bassim (Ontario, Canada) and Yasamin Sartipi (Ontario, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods for segmenting images which comprise impinging a substrate surface with a particle beam at each of a plurality of sensing locations which define a subset of locations within an area of...