ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,617, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ERSA GmbH (Wertheim, Germany).

"Press-in machine for pressing components into a substrate, in particular into a printed circuit board or carrier plate, with substrate positioning" was invented by Kathrin Englert (Marktheidenfeld, Germany), Lothar Schwab (Bischbrunn, Germany), Sebastian Becker (Erlenbach, Germany) and Kevin Friedrich (Wertheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A press-in machine for pressing electrical, electronic, mechanical and/or electromechanical components into a substrate, in particular into a printed circuit board or carrier plate, and method therefor, including a m...