US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 17 for "Method for probe pin retrieval" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,291, issued on June 17, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for probe pin retrieval" was invented by Ming-Cheng Hsu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Wen-Chun Tu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for retrieving a probe pin includes following operations. A probe head is received in a carrier. The probe head includes an upper die, a lower die, and at least a probe pin extending in a direction from the lower die to the upper die. A first bending delta between a probe tip of the probe pin and a pin tip of the probe pin is measured. The probe pin is bended by a bending fix...