ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,072, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to VueReal Inc. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Self-aligned vertical solid state devices fabrication and integration methods" was invented by Gholamreza Chaji (Kicthener, Canada) and Ehsanollah Fathi (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include methods of fabricating an array of self-aligned vertical solid state devices and integrating the devices to a system substrate. The method of fabricating a self-aligned vertical solid state device comprising: providing a semiconductor substrate, depositing a plurality of device layers on the semiconductor substrate, depositing an ohmic c...