ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,842, issued on April 29, was assigned to GLTTEK Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Probe grinding device by acoustic positioning" was invented by Hsun Hao Chan (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Pei Hua Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probe grinding device by acoustic positioning includes a fixing base, a grinding base, a rotating module, a motor module, a moving module, a processing module, an acoustic sensing module, and a memory module. The fixing base fixes a probe card. The acoustic sensing module generates and transmits an acoustic sensing signal to the processing module. The memory module stores a grinding audio of a grind...