US Patent Issued to ATOP on Oct. 20 for "Transfer unit for transferring conductive elements, and corresponding method" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,220, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ATOP S.P.A. (Barberino, Italy).

"Transfer unit for transferring conductive elements, and corresponding method" was invented by Rubino Corbinelli (Poggibonsi, Italy) and Maurizio Mugelli (Barberino, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer unit for transferring conductive elements, which is configured to pick up a conductive element from a delivery station and to move it until at least one portion of interest thereof is inserted into a specific destination slot provided in a collection tool that is provided with a plurality of slots arranged according to a predefined distribution.The unit...