US Patent Issued to Kulicke and Soffa Industries on Dec. 2 for "Methods of determining and/or calibrating a cutter height on a wedge bonding machine, and related wedge bonding machines" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,565, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. (Fort Washington, Pa.).

"Methods of determining and/or calibrating a cutter height on a wedge bonding machine, and related wedge bonding machines" was invented by Peter Julius Klaerner (Fort Washington, Pa.), Eric T. Scranton (Fort Washington, Pa.), Karthik Gundappa Balte (Fort Washington, Pa.), Jose De Jesus Lozano de Alva (Fort Washington, Pa.) and Devesh Sharma (Fort Washington, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a cutter height on a wedge bonding machine is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) lowering a wedge bonding tool t...