US Patent Issued to ROBERT BOSCH on March 18 for "Method for forming an electrical contact and method for forming a semiconductor device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,068, issued on March 18, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for forming an electrical contact and method for forming a semiconductor device" was invented by Humberto Rodriguez Alvarez (Kornwestheim, Germany) and Jan-Hendrik Alsmeier (Pfullingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming an electrical contact is provided. The method includes grinding a silicon carbide surface using a grinding disk which includes a grinding face containing nickel or a nickel compound, such that particles of the nickel or nickel compound from the grinding disk are embedded in the ground silicon carbide sur...