US Patent Issued to Thermo Fisher (Bremen), Life Technologies, FEI Deutschland on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for imaging and ablating a sample" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,291, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Thermo Fisher (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany), Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.) and FEI Deutschland GmbH (Germany).

"Systems and methods for imaging and ablating a sample" was invented by Alexander Makarov (Bremen, Germany), Michael Ward (Eugene, Ore.) and Rainer Daum (Wessling, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems for imaging and ablating a sample. An imaging/ablating device includes an optical assembly, a sample stage, and a receiver. The optical assembly enables ablation of a region of interest within the sample. The laser light propagated from the opti...