ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,162, issued on July 22, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Resin sheet" was invented by Yoshinori Kakinuma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resin sheet has a thermocompression bonding film that is to be thermocompression bonded to a workpiece. The resin sheet includes the thermocompression bonding film that is made of resin and has one surface which is to be thermocompression bonded to the workpiece, and a resin-made protective film that has an inner surface facing the one surface, is stuck to the thermocompression bonding film in a peelable manner, and protects the one surface. At least one of the one surface or the inner ...