US Patent Issued to Kulicke & Soffa Netherlands on Nov. 4 for "Systems for stretching a die source, and related methods" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,066, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Kulicke & Soffa Netherlands B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems for stretching a die source, and related methods" was invented by Hendrikus Antonius Fransen (Budel-Schoot, Netherlands) and Rene Christoffel Bouman (Vught, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for stretching a die source is provided. The system includes: a stretch ring for holding a carrier sheet, the carrier sheet supporting a die source, the die source including a plurality of die; and a driving member for contacting the carrier sheet through the stretch ring, an area occupied by the die source being increased b...