US Patent Issued to MRSI Systems on Jan. 20 for "Self-aligning tip" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,703, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MRSI Systems LLC (Tewksbury, Mass.).

"Self-aligning tip" was invented by Nicholas Samuel Celia Jr. (Avon, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A die placement system provides a tip body and die placement head to ensure planarity of a die to substrate without the need for calibration prior to each pick and place operation. A self-aligning tip incorporated into a tip body aids in die placement/attachment. This tip provides for global correction of planarity errors that exist between a die and substrate, regardless of whether those errors stem from gantry (i.e. die-side misalignment) or machine de...