ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,954, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to ASM IP Holding B.V. (Almere, Netherlands).
"Method of cleaning a surface" was invented by Shaoren Deng (Ghent, Belgium), Andrea Illiberi (Leuven, Belgium), Daniele Chiappe (Espoo, Finland), Eva Tois (Espoo, Finland), Giuseppe Alessio Verni (Jodoigne, Belgium), Michael Givens (Oud-Heverlee, Belgium), Varun Sharma (Helsinki), Chiyu Zhu (Helsinki), Shinya Iwashita (Helsinki), Charles Dezelah (Helsinki), Viraj Madhiwala (Helsinki), Jan Willem Maes (Wilrijk, Belgium), Marko Tuominen (Helsinki) and Anirudhan Chandrasekaran (Herent, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for cleaning a substrate...