ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,687, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to WISTRON CORP. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Substrate pickup tool, substrate assembly station and substrate installation method" was invented by chieh-hsiang Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate pickup tool is used to pick up a substrate provided with a through hole. The substrate pickup tool includes a gripper frame and a flexible gripper. The flexible gripper includes an annular mount portion and a plurality of claw portions. The annular mount portion is mounted on the gripper frame, the claw portions are connected to the annular mount portion and each has an ou...