US Patent Issued to HRL LABORATORIES on Oct. 14 for "Integrated mechanical aids for high accuracy alignable-electrical contacts" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,712, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HRL LABORATORIES LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"Integrated mechanical aids for high accuracy alignable-electrical contacts" was invented by Peter Brewer (Westlake Village, Calif.), Aurelio Lopez (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Partia Naghibi-Mahmoudabadi (Canoga Park, Calif.) and Tahir Hussain (Calabasas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for laterally urging two semiconductor chips, dies or wafers into an improved state of registration with each other, the method and apparatus employing microstructures comprising: a first microstructure disposed on a first major surface of a first ...