ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,768, issued on April 22, was assigned to ERSA GmbH (Wertheim, Germany).

"Press-in machine for pressing components into a substrate, in particular into a printed circuit board or carrier plate, with changing unit" was invented by Kevin Friedrich (Wertheim, Germany), Lothar Schwab (Bischbrunn, Germany), Kathrin Englert (Marktheidenfeld, Germany) and Sebastian Becker (Erlenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Press-in machine for pressing electrical, electronic, mechanical and/or electromechanical components into a substrate, in particular into a circuit board or carrier board, including a lower tool, which for pressing-is in con...