ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,083, issued on July 14, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cassette housing, prober, server rack, and storage system" was invented by Tatsuro Hitomi (Hiratsuka Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuhito Yoshimizu (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Arata Inoue (Chigasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Dohmae (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhito Hayasaka (Tokyo) and Tomoya Sanuki (Yokkaichi Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a cassette housing includes a storage unit, a probe card, and a container. The storage unit stores a semiconductor wafer including a plurality of nonvolatile memory chips. The probe card includes a pro...