ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,963, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Optical assembly for alignment inspection, optical apparatus including the same, die bonding system and die bonding method using the same" was invented by Jiyoung Chu (Gyeongju-si, South Korea), Hyungjin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minhwan Seo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Wondon Joo (Incheon, South Korea), Sungmin Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jiyoung Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Ono Kazuya (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jungchul Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical apparatus includes a folding mirror confi...