US Patent Issued to Siemens on Dec. 9 for "Method and device for populating circuit boards by fixedly assigned components on at least two assembly lines" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,533, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and device for populating circuit boards by fixedly assigned components on at least two assembly lines" was invented by Alexander Pfaffinger (Munich) and Christian Royer (Ottobrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for populating circuit boards with a quantity of required component types on at least two assembly lines is provided, wherein fixedly assigned components can be mounted on each assembly line, wherein the method includes the following steps: a) acquiring circuit board types; b) acquiring component types; c) acquiring fixedly assigned component...