US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Feb. 18 for "Dispense volume adjustment based on gap width of located features" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,795, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Dispense volume adjustment based on gap width of located features" was invented by Sunny Agarwal (Franklin, Mass.) and Ronald J. Forget (Douglas, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of depositing material on an electronic substrate with a dispensing system includes acquiring an image of a first feature of a first component and an adjacent second feature of a second component, performing a measure command to measure an actual distance of a gap between the first feature of the first component and the second feature of the second component, div...