ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,275, issued on May 20, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Heterogeneous integration of components onto compact devices using moire based metrology and vacuum based pick-and-place" was invented by Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas), Paras Ajay (Austin, Texas), Aseem Sayal (Austin, Texas), Mark McDermott (Austin, Texas), Shrawan Singhal (Austin, Texas), Ovadia Abed (Austin, Texas), Lawrence Dunn (Austin, Texas), Vipul Goyal (Austin, Texas) and Michael Cullinan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assembling heterogeneous components. The assembly process includes...