Patents by Inventor Peter Emile Stephan Joseph Asselbergs

Peter Emile Stephan Joseph Asselbergs has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for the manufacture and transmissive irradiation of a sample, and particle-optical system
    Patent number: 6963068
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for the manufacture and transmissive irradiation of a sample, comprising the steps of: A Providing a particle-optical system having an internal low-pressure chamber and suitable for the generation of an electron beam and an intersecting ion beam in said chamber; B Providing a specimen within the chamber, carried by a manipulator; C Irradiating the specimen with the ion beam so as to cut a sample from the specimen; D Relatively displacing the sample thus cut to a sample holder than can be manipulated; E Attaching the sample to the sample holder; F Using an electron beam to perform transmissive irradiation of the sample thus attached to the sample holder, characterized in that step F is performed in the low-pressure chamber of the particle-optical system according to step A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: FEI Company
    Inventors: Peter Emile Stephan Joseph Asselbergs, Hendrik Gezinus Tappel, Gerard Nicolaas Anne van Veen
  • Method for the manufacture and transmissive irradiation of a sample, and particle-optical system
    Publication number: 20040144924
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for the manufacture and transmissive irradiation of a sample, comprising the steps of:
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Inventors: Peter Emile Stephan Joseph Asselbergs, Hendrik Gezinus Tappel, Gerard Nicolaas Anne van Veen