US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW, Universiteit Gent on Oct. 28 for "Method for positioning components on a substrate and substrates suitable for the method" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,641, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium) and Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium).

"Method for positioning components on a substrate and substrates suitable for the method" was invented by Tom Sterken (Merelbeke, Belgium) and Geert Van Steenberge (Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for accurately positioning a component on a receiver substrate is provided. The component is transferred from a donor substrate to a receiver substrate facing the donor substrate. The method comprises creating at least one nozzle at a predefined location in the area of contact between a blister forming ...