US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 18 for "Apparatuses for handling microelectronic devices" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,841, issued on March 18, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses for handling microelectronic devices" was invented by Kuan Wei Tseng (Taichung, Taiwan) and Brandon P. Wirz (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for handling microelectronic devices comprises a pick arm having a pick surface configured for receiving a microelectronic device thereon, drives for moving the pick arm and reorienting the pick surface in the X, Y and Z planes and about a horizontal rotational axis and a vertical rotational axis, and a sensor device carried by the pick arm and configured to detect at least one ...