US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on April 14 for "Method of processing articles and corresponding apparatus" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,082, issued on April 14, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Method of processing articles and corresponding apparatus" was invented by Paolo Crema (Vimercate, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Articles such as substrates for semiconductor products comprising metal and resin portions with adhesion promoter material are processed in a plating bath, wherein the adhesion promoter material is exposed to dissolution as a result of prolonged exposure to the plating bath. The articles are processed by dipping them in the processing bath so that they have opposed surfaces exposed to the processing bath.The...