US Patent Issued to MERCK PATENT on Oct. 21 for "Methods of forming molybdenum-containing films deposited on elemental metal films" (Massachusetts, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,681, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MERCK PATENT GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Methods of forming molybdenum-containing films deposited on elemental metal films" was invented by Guo Liu (Haverhill, Mass.), Jacob Woodruff (Lexington, Mass.) and Jean-Sebastien Lehn (Somerville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of forming molybdenum-containing films are provided. The methods include thermally depositing a first film on a surface of a substrate, for example, at a first temperature less than or equal to about 400deg C., and thermally depositing the molybdenum-containing film (second film) on at least a portion of the first fi...