ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,177, issued on May 12, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automatic board probing station" was invented by Akhilesh Sandeep Thakur (Portland, Ore.), Ryan Kelsey Albright (Beaverton, Ore.), Frans Johannes Fourie (Portland, Ore.), Jorian Matias Bruslind (Beaverton, Ore.), Kevin Matthew Hoser (Portland, Ore.), Zachary Jacob Watkins (Hillsboro, Ore.), Audrey Grace Cummings (Hillsboro, Ore.), Jose Eduardo Barcenas (Portland, Ore.), Daniel Garanton (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Grant Michael Skidmore (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods herein are for an automatic board probing station in which a plur...