US Patent Issued to HERAEUS DEUTSCHLAND on Feb. 3 for "Sintering paste and use thereof for connecting components" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,566, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to HERAEUS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH & Co. KG (Hanau, Germany).

"Sintering paste and use thereof for connecting components" was invented by Ly May Chew (Hanau, Germany), Wolfgang Schmitt (Hanau, Germany) and Michael Schafer (Hanau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a sintering paste consisting of: (A) 30 to 40 wt. % of silver flakes with an average particle size ranging from 1 to 20 micro metre, (B) 8 to 20 wt. % of silver particles with an average particle size ranging from 20 to 100 nm, (C) 30 to 45 wt. % of silver(I) oxide particles, (D) 12 to 20 wt. % of at least one organic...