US Patent Issued to Kulicke and Soffa Industries on July 21 for "Conductive pins, power modules, ultrasonic welding systems, and methods of using the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,072, issued on July 21, was assigned to Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. (Fort Washington, Pa.).

"Conductive pins, power modules, ultrasonic welding systems, and methods of using the same" was invented by Todd J. Walker (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Omid Niayesh (Irvine, Calif.) and Henri Seppaenen (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductive pin for ultrasonic welding is provided. The conductive pin includes a body portion. The conductive pin also includes a pin head at one end of the body portion. The pin head defines a bonding surface configured to be ultrasonically welded to a workpiece. The bonding surface includes...