ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,010, issued on May 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Fabrication method" was invented by Pavel Aseev (Delft, Netherlands), Philippe Caroff-Gaonac'h (Delft, Netherlands) and Leonardus Petrus Kouwenhoven (The Hague, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fabrication method comprising: forming a mask of an amorphous material over a crystalline surface of a substrate, the mask having a pattern of openings defining areas of an active region in which one or more components of one or more active devices are to be formed, the mask further defining a non-active region in which no active devices are...