ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,144, issued on May 5, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Surface treatment for selective deposition" was invented by Carmen Leal Cervantes (Mountain View, Calif.), Yong Jin Kim (Albany, Calif.) and Kevin Kashefi (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of surface pretreatment during selective deposition are disclosed. One or more embodiment of the disclosure provides surface pretreatments which facilitate the removal of blocking layers. Some embodiments of the disclosure include a surface pretreatment comprising exposure of a substrate with a first surface and a second surface to modify the ...