ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,353, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Yield Engineering Systems Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).
"Coating removal apparatus and method" was invented by Alan Lee Stone (Bloomingale, Ill.), Kevin Bruce McGillivray (Agua Dulce, Calif.) and Christopher Lane (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating removal apparatus includes multiple pairs of rotatable brushes spaced apart from each other in a first direction. Each pair of brushes may include two opposing brushes that are configured to rotate about a common axis and move towards and away from each other in a second direction transverse to the first direction. When a coated p...