ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,934, issued on April 7, was assigned to MIKRO MESA TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Apia, Samoa).

"Method of manufacturing structure having multi metal layers" was invented by Li-Yi Chen (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Chieh-Ting Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a structure having multi metal layers includes: depositing a top metal layer on a bottom metal layer; forming a patterned photoresist on the top metal layer; etching the top and bottom metal layers through first hollow portions of the patterned photoresist to respectively form a top metal pattern and a bottom metal pattern; forming a second ho...