ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,895, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CKD Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Solder printing inspection device" was invented by Kazuyoshi Kikuchi (Aichi, Japan), Tsuyoshi Ohyama (Aichi, Japan) and Norihiko Sakaida (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solder printing inspection device includes: an illumination device that irradiates, with a predetermined light, a printed circuit board on which a solder paste is printed; an imaging device that takes an image of the printed circuit board irradiated with the predetermined light and obtains image data; and a control device that: based on the image data, obtain three-dimensional measurem...