US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on June 24 for "Amorphous or nanocrystalline molybdenum nitride and silicon nitride multilayers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,477, issued on June 24, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Amorphous or nanocrystalline molybdenum nitride and silicon nitride multilayers" was invented by Catherine Burcklen (Oakland, Calif.), Tommaso Pardini (Oakland, Calif.) and Regina Soufli (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer film structure, and method of making such a multilayer film structure, which includes a first layer consisting essentially of a first material and a second layer consisting essentially of a second material. In embodiments, the multilayer film structure includes a plurality of first layers...