ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,455, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Monitoring a flux application" was invented by Ulrich Wittreich (Velten, Germany), Rene Blank (Berlin), Michael Hanisch (Hohen Neuendorf, Germany), Marco Matiwe (Berlin), Dennis Sommerfeld (Berlin), Kay Jarchoff (SchonflieB, Germany) and Bernd Muller (Falkenberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for monitoring a flux application in a soldering process. An example includes: defining flux wetting surfaces in relation to an image of an application surface; generating a thermographic recording of the application ...