ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,683, issued on May 12, was assigned to Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. (Fort Washington, Pa.).
"Methods of improving wire bonding operations" was invented by Hui Xu (Fort Washington, Pa.), Wei Qin (Fort Washington, Pa.) and Jeongho Yang (Fort Washington, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a new search height for a wire bonding process is provided. The method includes the steps of: providing a search height; performing a plurality of wire bonding operations using the search height; monitoring wire bonding evaluation criteria during each of the plurality of wire bonding operations; and determining a new search ...