ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,621, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Inpria Corp. (Corvallis, Ore.).

"Tin dodecamers and radiation patternable coatings with strong euv absorption" was invented by Brian J. Cardineau (Corvallis, Ore.), William Earley (Corvallis, Ore.), Stephen T. Meyers (Corvallis, Ore.), Kai Jiang (Corvallis, Ore.) and Jeremy T. Anderson (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Patterning compositions are described based on organo tin dodecamers with hydrocarbyl ligands, oxo ligands, hydroxo ligands and carboxylato ligands. Alternative dodecamer embodiments have organo tin ligands in place of hydrocarbyl ligands. The organo tin ligands can...