US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on June 17 for "Method of forming an intermetallic phase layer with a plurality of nickel particles" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,243, issued on June 17, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Method of forming an intermetallic phase layer with a plurality of nickel particles" was invented by Alexander Heinrich (Bad Abbach, Germany), Alexander Roth (Zeitlarn, Germany) and Catharina Wille (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layer structure includes a first layer including at least one material selected from a first group consisting of nickel, copper, gold, silver, palladium, tin, zinc, platinum, and an alloy of any of these materials; a third layer including at least one material selected from a second group consisting ...