US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Aug. 4 for "Strong base-assisted direct bonding method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,973, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Grenoble, France).

"Strong base-assisted direct bonding method" was invented by Frank Fournel (Grenoble, France), Aziliz Calvez (Grenoble, France), Vincent Larrey (Grenoble, France) and Christophe Morales (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct bonding method between two substrates includes the steps of: providing a first substrate and a second substrate respectively including a first hydrophilic bonding surface and a second hydrophilic bonding surface; depositing on the first and/or on the second hydrophilic bondin...