ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,009, issued on May 20, was assigned to Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. (Fort Washington, Pa.).
"Methods of installing wire bonding tools on wire bonding systems, and related installation tools and systems" was invented by Jon W. Brunner (Fort Washington, Pa.), Gary W. Schulze (Fort Washington, Pa.) and Aashish Shah (Fort Washington, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of installing a wire bonding tool on a wire bonding system is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) holding a wire bonding tool with an installation tool; (b) engaging the wire bonding tool in an aperture of a transducer of a wire bonding system whil...