ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,710, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ASMPT GmbH & Co. KG (Germany).

"Support pin for supporting a substrate in a placement area of a placement machine" was invented by Martin Neusser (Munich) and Jetulla Avdili (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a support pin (10) for supporting a substrate (80) in a placement area of a placement machine (100) and a placement machine (100) with at least one placement head (101), a magazine (104) with a plurality of such support pins (10) and a placement board (103)."

The patent was filed on Dec. 13, 2023, under Application No. 18/538,224.

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