ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,512, issued on June 30, was assigned to GUDENG PRECISION INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Supporting structure and inspection equipment therefof and calibrating tool for inspection equipment" was invented by Ming-Chien Chiu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Yung-Chin Pan (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Tzu-Ning Huang (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supporting structure and an inspection equipment thereof and a calibrating tool for the inspection equipment include backbone and parallel blocks in the supporting structure. The receiving trench is defined between two adjacent supporting portions on the bac...