US Patent Issued to ASM IP Holding on July 22 for "Transition metal deposition processes and deposition assembly" (Belgian, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,984, issued on July 22, was assigned to ASM IP Holding B.V. (Almere, Netherlands).

"Transition metal deposition processes and deposition assembly" was invented by Janne-Petteri Niemela (Helsinki), Elina Farm (Helsinki), Charles Dezelah (Helsinki), Jan Willem Maes (Wilrijk, Belgium) and Patricio Romero (Wilsele, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current disclosure relates to methods for forming a film comprising transition metal on a substrate. The disclosure further relates to a transition metal layer, to a structure and a device comprising a layer that comprises a transition metal. In the method, transition metal is deposit...