US Patent Issued to Nexperia on Aug. 25 for "Pick-and-place apparatus and method" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,096, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Nexperia B.V. (Nijmegen, Netherlands).

"Pick-and-place apparatus and method" was invented by Steven Verstoep (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Niels de Koning (Nijmegen, Netherlands) and Tim Ellenbroek (Nijmegen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a pick-and-place apparatus that is configured to cause components to be placed on a substrate in a number of passes, and during each pass, components among a plurality of components are placed on the substrate in a respective placement pattern among a collection of interleaved placement patterns."

The patent...