Patent ID: 8290239

Claim:
An apparatus, intended for use in automatically inspecting and repairing electrical circuits, comprising: an inspection means for executing an automatic inspection of electrical circuits and providing a machine readable indication of one or more regions thereon requiring repair; an automatic repair means for employing said machine readable indication to execute an automatic repair operation of said electrical circuits at said one or more regions thereon requiring repair; and an automatic verification means for executing an automatic reinspection of said one or more regions based on said machine readable indication of said one or more regions thereon requiring repair, following said automatic repair operation, and providing to said automatic repair means a reformulated machine readable indication of whether said one or more regions require additional repair, are adequately repaired, or are irreparable; wherein said automatic repair means employs a sweeping laser assembly for ablating spurious conductor deposits within said one or more regions, said sweeping laser assembly comprising a fast-steerable mirror which is steerable about at least two axes.