US Patent Issued to ASMPT on Feb. 24 for "Supplying components from a continuous material to a placement machine" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,712, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ASMPT GmbH & Co. KG (Germany).

"Supplying components from a continuous material to a placement machine" was invented by Christoph Oeckl (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (150) for supplying components (197) for a placement machine (100) is described, wherein the components (197) are provided in the form of a continuous material (295). The device (150) has (a) a chassis (252); (b) a transport device (260) attached to the chassis (252) for transporting the continuous material (295) along a transport track towards a pick-up position; and (c) a cutting device (270) which is configured...