US Patent Issued to TOHOKU-MICROTEC on June 10 for "Alignment-assisting tray, alignment-control apparatus and alignment method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,742, issued on June 10, was assigned to TOHOKU-MICROTEC Co. LTD. (Sendai, Japan).

"Alignment-assisting tray, alignment-control apparatus and alignment method" was invented by Makoto Motoyoshi (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alignment-control apparatus encompasses an alignment-assisting tray for aligning a plurality of elements in a batch with highly minute-and-precise configuration, a first transferring unit for collectively transporting the plurality of elements to the alignment-assisting tray, a driving unit for reallocating a convex-ridge of each of the elements toward an concave-ridge assigned to each of the conc...