US Patent Issued to Kulicke and Soffa Industries on Aug. 5 for "Ultrasonic welding systems, methods of using the same, and related workpieces including welded conductive pins" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,489, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. (Fort Washington, Pa.).

"Ultrasonic welding systems, methods of using the same, and related workpieces including welded conductive pins" was invented by Theodore J. Copperthite (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Richard J. McCartney Jr. (Chandler, Ariz.) and Omid Niayesh (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic welding system is provided. The ultrasonic welding system includes a support structure for supporting a workpiece. The ultrasonic welding system also includes a weld head assembly including an ultrasonic converter carrying a sonotrode. The ultraso...