ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,108, issued on June 17, was assigned to Delta Electronics Inc. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Learning method for plug-in depth" was invented by Jian-Jang Lai (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Po-Yu Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chien-Ta Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a learning method for plug-in depth including steps of: (a) utilizing a robot arm to take an electronic component with a plurality of pins; (b) utilizing a first visual device to identify a pin distance; (c) utilizing a second visual device to identify a hole distance; (d) inserting the plurality of pins into the corresponding plurality of holes...