ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,145, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ASMPT GmbH & Co. KG (Germany).

"Method for delivering components in feeder cassettes, delivery system, computer program product and computer-readable medium" was invented by Johannes Justinger (Landsberg am Lech, Germany), Matthias Miksch (Munich) and Vincent Pfeifer (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for delivering components in feeder cassettes to at least one placement device by a delivery system, the method includes the following method steps: Detection of a mandatory exchange period (t1) for each of the feeder cassettes by the delivery system, Comparison of the recorded mandat...