US Patent Issued to FormFactor on Oct. 14 for "Vertical probe array having sliding contacts in elastic guide plate" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,834, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to FormFactor Inc. (Livermore, Calif.).

"Vertical probe array having sliding contacts in elastic guide plate" was invented by January Kister (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Kevin John Hughes (Jurupa Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probe array having decoupled electrical and mechanical design constraints on the probes is provided. Each probe is a two-part structure with the two parts able to stay in electrical contact with each other as the parts slide up and down with respect to each other. The probes are disposed in through holes of an elastic matrix, each probe having its correspond...