US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, SOITEC on Feb. 25 for "Method for sealing cavities using membranes" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,144, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris) and SOITEC (Bernin, France).

"Method for sealing cavities using membranes" was invented by Thierry Salvetat (Grenoble, France), Bruno Ghyselen (Seyssinet-Pariset, France), Lamine Benaissa (Grenoble, France), Caroline Coutier (Grenoble, France) and Gweltaz Gaudin (Crolles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sealing cavities using membranes, the method including a) forming cavities arranged in a matrix, of a depth p, a characteristic dimension a, and spaced apart by a spacing b; and b) forming membranes, sealin...