US Patent Issued to Besi Switzerland on April 21 for "Apparatus and method for optical inspecting three or more sides of a component" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,568, issued on April 21, was assigned to Besi Switzerland AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Apparatus and method for optical inspecting three or more sides of a component" was invented by Ralf Weise (Steinhausen, Switzerland), Katharina Schmeing (Steinhausen, Switzerland), Rudolf Gruter (Steinhausen, Switzerland) and Marco Hug (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inventions describes an apparatus for inspection of a component comprising an adjustable optical element for image detection in two steps-with focus on the second (or bottom) face of the component and with a focus on the sides. This allows the degree o...