US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Dec. 2 for "Method for activating an exposed layer" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,983, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for activating an exposed layer" was invented by Pierre Brianceau (Grenoble, France) and Nicolas Posseme (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for activating an exposed layer of a structure including a provision of a structure including an exposed layer, a deposition of a layer based on a material of formula SiaYbXc, with X chosen from among fluorine F and chlorine Cl, and Y chosen from among oxygen O and nitrogen N, a, b and c being non-zero positive integers, a treatment of the layer SiaYbXc by a...