US Patent Issued to DISCO HI-TEC EUROPE, TAKATORI on Jan. 28 for "Alignment device and alignment method" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,723, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to DISCO HI-TEC EUROPE GMBH (Kirchheim B. Muenchen, Germany) and TAKATORI Corp. (Kashihara, Japan).

"Alignment device and alignment method" was invented by Karl Heinz Priewasser (Kirchheim b. Munich, Germany), Yoshiyuki Harioka (Kashihara, Japan), Ken Ikehata (Kashihara, Japan), Yoshinori Kakinuma (Kashihara, Japan), Yosuke Ishimatsu (Kashihara, Japan) and Ryouta Sawayama (Kashihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To perform alignment of a protective tape having a protective layer with high accuracy, provided is an alignment device (5) to be used for applying a protective tape (PT) to a semi...