Patents by Inventor Thomas C. Dodd

Thomas C. Dodd has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of selectively depositing a metal on a surface by means of sputtering
    Patent number: 4354911
    Abstract: It has been discovered that by cleaning a substrate having a negative ink pattern of a desired circuit in a plasma comprising 60/40 oxygen/argon and then sputtering a thin (10-50 Angstroms) layer of catalytic copper thereover, the treated substrate when exposed to an electroless plating bath will selectively plate only in the areas where there is no ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1982
    Assignee: Western Electric Company Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas C. Dodd, John A. Emerson