ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,763, issued on March 3, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for transferring a layer" was invented by Florian Dupont (Grenoble Cedex, France) and Guillaume Rodriguez (Grenoble Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transferring a layer of interest from a donor substrate to a receiver substrate includes providing the donor substrate made of a transparent material at a wavelength Lambda, forming at least one sacrificial buffer layer made of an absorbent sacrificial material at the wavelength Lambda, on the donor substrate, forming the layer of interest on th...