US Patent Issued to Sonix on Sept. 16 for "Systems, methods and apparatus for dispensing fluid to an object" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,935, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sonix Inc. (Springfield, Va.).

"Systems, methods and apparatus for dispensing fluid to an object" was invented by Young-Shin Kwon (Chantilly, Va.), Paul Ivan John Keeton (Woodbridge, Va.) and James C. McKeon (Woodbridge, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatus related to pre-wetting an edge portion of a bonded wafer prior to wetting a flat, horizontal portion of the bonded wafer. The apparatus includes a frame having nozzles directed such that couplant discharged from these nozzles wet the edge of the wafer. The edge nozzles have couplant flow vectors that interface ...