US Patent Issued to MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings on June 23 for "Voice coil leaf spring prober" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,466, issued on June 23, was assigned to MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc. (Lowell, Mass.).

"Voice coil leaf spring prober" was invented by Timothy James Vanderwerf (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Alex G Chernyakov (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure describe a voice coil actuated leaf spring prober that advantageously may be operated to probe every individual device (device under test-DUT) comprising a contemporary wafer. The prober according to aspects of the present disclosure includes one or more probe needles attached in an electrically isolated arrangement to an end of a horizontal-U-shaped, ...