US Patent Issued to APPLIED MATERIALS on July 29 for "One chamber multi-station selective metal removal" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,568, issued on July 29, was assigned to APPLIED MATERIALS Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"One chamber multi-station selective metal removal" was invented by Shiyu Yue (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sahil Jaykumar Patel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yu Lei (Belmont, Calif.), Wei Lei (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chih-Hsun Hsu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yi Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Abulaiti Hairisha (Santa Clara, Calif.), Cong Trinh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yixiong Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Ju Hyun Oh (San Jose, Calif.), Aixi Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xingyao Gao (San Jose, Calif.) and Rongjun Wang (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of selective me...