ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,678, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Nearfield Instruments B.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands).
"Probe cassette and method for storing, transporting and handling one or more probe devices for a probe based system" was invented by Johannes Gradus Martinus Koers (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Servaas Louis Bank (Enschede, Netherlands) and Hamed Sadeghian Marnani (Rotterdam, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probe cassette for storing, transporting and handling one or more probe devices for a probe based system, the cassette including a body having at least one probe receptacle arranged to accommodate a probe device, wherein, at the ...