US Patent Issued to Siltronic on May 27 for "Method and apparatus for simultaneously slicing a multiplicity of slices from a workpiece" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,577, issued on May 27, was assigned to Siltronic AG (Munich).

"Method and apparatus for simultaneously slicing a multiplicity of slices from a workpiece" was invented by Georg Pietsch (Burghausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiplicity of slices are simultaneously sliced from a workpiece during a slicing operation using a wire saw. A non-linear pitch function dTAR(WP) is selected dependent on a target thickness value function TTAR(WP), a pitch function dINI(WP) and a thickness value function TINI(WP), dTAR(WP) and adjacent grooves in the wire guide rollers are assigned a pitch at a position WP during the slicing operat...