US Patent Issued to ERS ELECTRONIC on July 21 for "Shielding device for a chuck, corresponding chuck, and corresponding wafer prober assembly" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,423, issued on July 21, was assigned to ERS ELECTRONIC GMBH (Germering, Germany).

"Shielding device for a chuck, corresponding chuck, and corresponding wafer prober assembly" was invented by Klemens Reitinger (Germering, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shielding device for a chuck of a wafer prober includes a ring mechanism having (I) a first ring that is attachable to an outer periphery of the chuck and (II) a second ring (i) mounted on the first ring so as to be displaceable along a vertical axis of the chuck relative to the first ring, (ii) having a cavity that (a) communicates with bores of the second ring and (b) has a ...