US Patent Issued to PROTEC on June 10 for "Head assembly for mounting conductive ball" (South Korean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,088, issued on June 10, was assigned to PROTEC Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Head assembly for mounting conductive ball" was invented by Youn Sung Ko (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Yoshiaki Yukimori (Kanagawa, Japan) and Geunsik Ahn (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a head assembly for mounting conductive balls of the disclosure, a gas flow for moving the conductive balls in a downward direction is formed in a chamber, and thus, small and light-weight conductive balls may be effectively mounted in mounting recesses of a mask. Also, because the head assembly for mounting the conductive balls is opera...