ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,471, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY (Changzhou, China) and CHANGZHOU KERUIER TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Changzhou, China).

"Tape-guided pin insertion feeding mechanisms" was invented by Yi Zhang (Changzhou, China), Qingqing Xu (Changzhou, China), Ang Li (Changzhou, China), Guangming Tang (Changzhou, China), Chunxing Xu (Changzhou, China) and Meng Yan (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a tape-guided pin insertion feeding mechanism. The mechanism includes: a pin tape material tray configured to store a pin tape; a feeding mechanism configured to drive the pin tape to mo...