US Patent Issued to IONICS on Feb. 25 for "Gold nickel alloy layer having nitrogen atoms inserted therein and related processing method" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,546, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to IONICS SA (Herstal, Belgium).

"Gold nickel alloy layer having nitrogen atoms inserted therein and related processing method" was invented by Fabien Monteverde (Mons, Belgium), Thomas Godfroid (Mons, Belgium), Luc Langer (Herstal, Belgium) and Fabian Renaux (Herstal, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gold nickel layer may comprise nitrogen inserted over a thickness equal to or greater than 0.20 nm, characterized in that the atomic concentration of gold is at least 15% over said thickness, the atomic concentration of nickel is at least 10% over said thickness and the atomic concentration o...