ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,138, issued on July 21, was assigned to KOLLMORGEN Corp. (Radford, Va.).
"Solder joint inspection features" was invented by Jeffery Todd Brewster (Dublin, Va.), Heather Cassidy Hawley (Blacksburg, Va.), William Edward Anderson IV (Blacksburg, Va.), Tyler William Wood (Radford, Va.), George Edward Midkiff (Pulaski, Va.) and Elizabeth Cantando (Blacksburg, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed circuit board has a solder joint inspection system including a substrate surface having at least one solder pad thereon, at least one conductor wire having an end attached to the at least one solder pad, and a first inspection feature. A f...