US Patent Issued to DISCO on June 30 for "Cutting apparatus, tray, and transport system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,506, issued on June 30, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cutting apparatus, tray, and transport system" was invented by Kazuma Sekiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting apparatus includes a chuck table having a holding surface used for holding either a workpiece unit that includes a plate-shaped workpiece supported on an annular frame by a tape or a tray shaped similarly to the annular frame, a rest area used for placing a receptacle that houses the workpiece unit or the tray, a transport unit configured to transport the workpiece unit or the tray between the rest area and the chuck table, the transport unit having ...