US Patent Issued to ASM IP Holding on July 15 for "Methods and systems for forming a layer comprising aluminum, titanium, and carbon" (Belgian, Finnish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,171, issued on July 15, was assigned to ASM IP Holding B.V. (Almere, Netherlands).

"Methods and systems for forming a layer comprising aluminum, titanium, and carbon" was invented by Lifu Chen (Helsinki), Qi Xie (Wilsele, Belgium), Charles Dezelah (Helsinki), Petro Deminskyi (Helsinki), Giuseppe Alessio Verni (Jodoigne, Belgium), Petri Raisanen (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Eric James Shero (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and systems for depositing layers comprising a titanium, aluminum, and carbon. The layers are formed onto a surface of a substrate. The deposition process comprises a cyclical deposition process...