ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,104, issued on May 27, was assigned to Chroma ATE Inc. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
"Surge protection module" was invented by Shen-Hao Tsai (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chin-Yuan Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chun-Hao Hu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yu-Jui Liu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a surge protection module which comprises a carrier board and a probe set. The carrier board is used to carry an electronic component. The probe set is disposed on the carrier board and has a plurality of probes and a short-circuit unit. Each probe is used for contacting the electronic component, and the short-circuit unit is selec...