US Patent Issued to Intel on April 8 for "Apparatus and method for protecting probe card and probes using thermal heat sensor trace" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,831, issued on April 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for protecting probe card and probes using thermal heat sensor trace" was invented by Arthur Isakharov (Aloha, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a thermal heat sensor trace including conductive metal and disposed in a space transformer, the thermal heat sensor trace being configured to form a resistance, and a controller configured to sense a voltage across the resistance formed by the thermal heat sensor trace, the voltage positively correlating to a temperature of the space transformer. The controller is further ...