ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,724, issued on July 28, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Systems, devices, and methods for compensating for shape variations when using image-based alignment to align bonding pads" was invented by Nilabh K. Roy (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some devices, systems, and methods for aligning a chiplet to a substrate obtain an image of a region on a chiplet, measure a deviation from planarity of the region on the chiplet, estimate a chiplet-position error of the chiplet based at least on the image of the region and the deviation from planarity of the region, and adjust a relative position of the chiplet and a subst...