US Patent Issued to TECHWIDU on Oct. 7 for "Probe card PMIC and signal switch IC supporting efficient channel control" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,171, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TECHWIDU Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Probe card PMIC and signal switch IC supporting efficient channel control" was invented by Hyoung-Suk Yoo (Seoul, South Korea) and Deok-Ju Mun (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch IC includes a plurality of cores, each of the cores including a plurality of channels, each of the channels being connected to a device under test (DUT), a command decoder configured to receive an identifier (ID) and a command, decode the ID and the command, and form a control signal for control of the cores and the channels, and a selector configu...