US Patent Issued to DISCO on Oct. 6 for "Grinding apparatus and grinding method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,392, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Grinding apparatus and grinding method" was invented by Takashi Yamaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a grinding apparatus including a holding unit that holds a workpiece by a chuck table, a grinding unit, a transporting mechanism that has a holding part capable of holding the workpiece, a first table that holds the workpiece to be loaded onto the holding unit, a second table that holds the workpiece having been unloaded from the holding unit, and a controller. When the controller determines that replacement of a grinding wheel is necessary in a state i...