US Patent Issued to SILTRONIC on June 10 for "Method for separating a plurality of slices from workpieces by means of a wire saw during a sequence of separation processes" (German, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,081, issued on June 10, was assigned to SILTRONIC AG (Munich).

"Method for separating a plurality of slices from workpieces by means of a wire saw during a sequence of separation processes" was invented by Axel Beyer (Seoul, South Korea), Carl Frintert (Muehldorf am Inn, Germany) and Peter Wiesner (Reut, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method uses a wire saw to cut slices from a workpiece. The wire saw has an array of saw wire tensioned in a plane between two rollers supported between fixed and floating bearings. During a cut-off operation, the workpiece is fed through the wire array with simultaneous axial movement of the f...