ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,649, issued on May 27, was assigned to Innova Electronics Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Rotational electrical probe" was invented by Phuong Pham (Fountain Valley, Calif.), Ly Ngoc Tran Bach (Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam), Tri Huu Tran (Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam), Douglass Constable (Lake Forest, Calif.) and John Joseph Protti (Long Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probe device has a main body and a probe body with different joints, where each joint rotates along different rotatable directions relative to one another. A user of the probe device may rotate the probe body relative to the main body along two separate rotatable axes to reac...