ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,956, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Pick and place method with detecting an event" was invented by Jen-Yuan Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pick and place method includes providing at least one semiconductor element disposed on a source storage location, picking up the at least one semiconductor element from the source storage location, transferring the at least one semiconductor element to a temporary storage device according to a signal, positioning the at least one semiconductor element via the temporary storage device, and picking...