US Patent Issued to APPLIED MATERIALS on July 1 for "Methods for controlling contact resistance in cobalt-titanium structures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,695, issued on July 1, was assigned to APPLIED MATERIALS Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods for controlling contact resistance in cobalt-titanium structures" was invented by Takashi Kuratomi (San Jose, Calif.), Avgerinos Gelatos (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Tae Hong Ha (San Jose, Calif.), Xuesong Lu (San Jose, Calif.), Szuheng Ho (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Wei Lei (Campbell, Calif.), Mark Lee (Mountain View, Calif.), Raymond Hung (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Xianmin Tang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for producing a reduced contact resistance for cobalt-titanium structures. In some embodiments, a method comprises deposit...