US Patent Issued to SILTRONIC on Nov. 25 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., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,129, issued on Nov. 25, 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), Patrick Berger (Freiberg, Germany), Carl Frintert (Muehldorf am Inn, Germany), Matthias Guenther (Freiberg, Germany) and Peter Wiesner (Reut, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method cuts slices from workpieces using a wire saw with a wire array tensioned in a plane between two wire guide rollers supported between fixed and floating bearings. A workpiece is fed through the wire array perpendi...