ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,565, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to EXADDON AG (Buchberg, Switzerland).

"Method for producing a probe card" was invented by Kun-Hsien Lin (Zhubei, Taiwan), Edgar Hepp (Zurich), Wabe Koelmans (Adliswil, Switzerland) and Patrik Schuerch (Suhr, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a probe card comprises the steps of: providing a carrier board, wherein a surface of the carrier board has at least one probe guiding portion; and generating a probe on the probe guiding portion by performing additive manufacturing with a conductive material directly on the at least one probe guiding portion to generate the pro...