ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,949, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Contact apparatus for arranging semiconductor devices" was invented by Zi Chow Lee (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia), Sahami Mohamad Yazid (Selangor, Malaysia) and Mohd Asyraf bin Azmi (Rawang, Malaysia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an elongated track having a track surface extending between spaced apart input and output ends of the track, in which the input end is configured to receive packaged semiconductor devices. A contact apparatus is supported above a portion of the track surface, in which the contact apparatus includes a pad having a contact su...