ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,712, issued on March 17, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Processing apparatus" was invented by Koichi Shigematsu (Tokyo) and Shuichiro Tsukiji (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing apparatus includes a holding unit for holding a workpiece thereon, a processing unit for processing the workpiece held on the holding unit, a moving mechanism for moving the holding unit and the processing unit relatively to each other, a processed state measuring unit for measuring a processed state of the workpiece, and a controller for controlling the processing unit, the moving mechanism, and the processed state measuring unit. The ...