ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,159, issued on April 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Reusable composite stencil for spray processes" was invented by Feras Eid (Chandler, Ariz.), Wenhao Li (Chandler, Ariz.), Jiraporn Seangatith (Chandler, Ariz.), Paul Diglio (Gaston, Ore.) and Xavier Brun (Hillsboro, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reusable composite stencils for spray processes, particularly for spray processes used in the fabrication of integrated circuit devices, may be fabricated having a permanent core and at least one sacrificial material layer. Thus, in operation, when a predetermined amount of the sacrificial material layer has b...