ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,279, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to JOHNSTECH INTERNATIONAL Corp. (Minneapolis).
"Housing with vertical backstop" was invented by Melissa Hasskamp (Minneapolis), David Skodje (Minneapolis) and Mike Andres (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactor assembly for a testing system for testing integrated circuit devices includes a contact, and a housing having a contact slot. The contact is receivable in the contact slot. The contact includes a tip, a body, and a tail; and is configured to be in a free state, a preload state, and an actuated state. The housing includes a housing backstop. When the contact is ...