ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,377, issued on June 17, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Chiplet loader for microassembler" was invented by JengPing Lu (Fremont, Calif.), David K. Biegelsen (Portola Valley, Calif.), Sourobh Raychaudhuri (Mountain View, Calif.), Bradley Rupp (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Eugene M. Chow (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro-assembly system includes a reservoir that stores a supply of chiplets suspended in a suspension fluid. Each of the chiplets has a bottom major surface that defines a right side down orientation. The system includes a delivery surface or belt that delivers the chiplets from the reservoir...