ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,969, issued on April 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Molding apparatus, molding method, and article manufacturing method" was invented by Yukio Inoue (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molding apparatus that molds a composition on a substrate using a mold, the apparatus including a discharge unit configured to discharge a droplet of the composition to arrange the droplet on the substrate, a measurement unit configured to measure a film thickness of a film of the composition formed on the substrate by molding, using the mold, the droplet of the composition arranged on the substrate, and a control unit configure...