US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Oct. 20 for "Surface treatment method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,765, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Surface treatment method" was invented by Ludovic Dupre (Grenoble Cedex, France) and Helene Fournier (Grenoble Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface treatment method includes providing a substrate with a surface having areas of selective epitaxy of a first material and masses of matter of the first material; forming a protection layer, produced in a second material, on the surface of the substrate; and forming a flattening layer on the protection layer. Areas of the flattening layer facing the masses of ma...