US Patent Issued to Cohu on Nov. 18 for "Automated test equipment for testing semiconductor devices" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,394, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cohu GmbH (Kolbermoor, Germany).

"Automated test equipment for testing semiconductor devices" was invented by Markus Wagner (Kolbermoor, Germany), Johann Potzinger (Fischbachau, Germany), Alan Whyte (Karlsfeld, Germany), Kevin Ludwig (San Diego) and Justin Felten (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated test equipment (ATE) for testing semiconductor devices, the test equipment comprises a test handler, a spare part, or a contactor socket, and a semiconductor devices tester, The spare part comprises an electronic component for storing and/or processing data regarding the sp...