US Patent Issued to ASM IP Holding on Aug. 5 for "Methods for filling a gap and related systems and devices" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,087, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ASM IP Holding B.V. (Almere, Netherlands).

"Methods for filling a gap and related systems and devices" was invented by Timothee Blanquart (Oud-Heverlee, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and related systems for filling a gap feature comprised in a substrate are disclosed. The methods comprise a step of providing a substrate comprising one or more gap features into a reaction chamber. The one or more gap features comprise a proximal part comprising a proximal surface and a distal part comprising a distal surface. The methods further comprise a step of subjecting the substrate to a pla...