US Patent Issued to HERAEUS DEUTSCHLAND on July 7 for "Strip-shaped composite material for probe needles" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,818, issued on July 7, was assigned to HERAEUS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH & Co. KG (Hanau, Germany).

"Strip-shaped composite material for probe needles" was invented by Jonas Fecher (Hanau, Germany) and Marc Schumann (Hanau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strip-shaped sandwich composite material for producing probe needles, wherein an inner core layer is arranged between two outer cover layers, wherein the inner core layer consists of a palladium alloy comprising at least 30 wt. % palladium or of a platinum alloy comprising at least 30 wt. % platinum, and wherein the two outer cover layers consist of a precipitation-hardened and/or di...