ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,828, issued on April 8, was assigned to POINT ENGINEERING Co. LTD. (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).

"Probe card" was invented by Bum Mo Ahn (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Seung Ho Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sung Hyun Byun (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a probe card. The probe card according to the present disclosure includes: a circuit board; a probe head having a guide plate, and through which a plurality of probes pass; and a connection member electrically connecting the circuit board and the probes to each other, wherein an insulating part of the connection member and the guide plate ar...