ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,894, issued on May 5, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Universal socket test card" was invented by Min-Huang Wu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Heriberto Castillo Velez (Aguadilla, Puerto Rico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for testing sockets, such as but not limited to CPU and GPU sockets. Systems and methods disclosed herein utilize a test card that has a test component and an adaptor Printed Circuit Board. The adaptor Printed Circuit Board (PCB) is configured to connect with a corresponding socket type on a motherboard and serves as an interface between the test compo...