ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,462, issued on March 17, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method of processing plate-shaped workpiece" was invented by Nobuyuki Fukushi (Tokyo), Kosei Kiyohara (Tokyo), Shohei Takeda (Tokyo) and Gentaro Tsuruta (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing a plate-shaped workpiece includes a workpiece supporting step of placing a plate-shaped workpiece on an upper surface of a sheet whose area is larger than that of the plate-shaped workpiece through a liquid resin interposed therebetween and supporting the plate-shaped workpiece on only the liquid resin that has solidified and the sheet, a processing step of pro...