ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,203, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ERSA GmbH (Wertheim, Germany).

"System for determining contamination coefficients and/or degrees of contamination in particular during the reflow soldering of printed circuit boards, and associated evaluation unit" was invented by Michael Haas (Schollbrunn, Germany), Benedict Fleischmann (Neubrunn, Germany), Harald Grumm (Ottobrunn, Germany) and Lukas Thanhauser (Wurzburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a degree of contamination of production units of a production line for the printing, equipping and reflow soldering of printed circuit boards, and evaluation uni...