US Patent Issued to Kulicke and Soffa Industries on July 29 for "Ultrasonic welding systems for conductive pins, and related methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,620, issued on July 29, was assigned to Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. (Fort Washington, Pa.).

"Ultrasonic welding systems for conductive pins, and related methods" was invented by Devesh Sharma (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Peter Julius Klaerner (Corona, Calif.) and Henri Seppaenen (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 sonotrode configured to ultrasonically weld a conductive pin to a workpiece. The ultrasonic welding system also includes a pin feeding system configured to feed the conductive pin to the sonotrode, the pin feeding system including a...