ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,147, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Cutting apparatus" was invented by Hayato Iga (Tokyo), Yuichi Kitazumi (Tokyo) and Kwangyoung Jung (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing unit includes a camera, an assembled lens that is connected to the camera and that magnifies a region to be imaged, a cover lens that covers an objective lens of the assembled lens, a fluid spray nozzle that sprays a fluid including water to the cover lens, a fluid removing nozzle that blows air to the cover lens to remove the fluid deposited on the cover lens, and a cutting water removing nozzle that blows air to a wafer...