US Patent Issued to TERECIRCUITS on April 7 for "Photochemical and thermal release layer processes and uses in device manufacturing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,306, issued on April 7, was assigned to TERECIRCUITS Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Photochemical and thermal release layer processes and uses in device manufacturing" was invented by Jayna Sheats (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Matthew Robinson (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for transferring a component from a release layer by exposing the release layer to light and heat from different sources is described. The process includes providing an assembly comprising a substrate, a release layer and a component, heating the release layer and exposing the release layer to an actinic wavelength of light, wherein the heatin...