ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,725, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Systems and methods for predicting a quality of a printed circuit board assembly" was invented by Jochen Bonig (Nuremberg, Germany), Konstantin Schmidt (Nuremberg, Germany) and Sven Meier (Arzberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of predicting a quality of a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly includes obtaining production data relating to production of the PCB assembly. The production data is mapped onto a latent vector of a latent space of a trained adaptive algorithm. The trained adaptive algorithm is trained on real X-ray images of...