ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,202, issued on July 14, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Multiaxial magnetic field-enabled underfilling" was invented by Lauren E. S. Rohwer (Albuquerque, N.M.) and James E. Martin (Tijeras, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and corresponding system for employing fluid vorticity to drive an underfilling process with a magnetic particle-loaded curing resin is disclosed. An applied multiaxial magnetic field drives the magnetic particles, and thus the curing resin, throughout the gap between a die and corresponding carrier chip. A magnetic field generator, for exa...