ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,004, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Thermal-curable composition for inkjet adaptive planarization" was invented by Timothy Brian Stachowiak (Austin, Texas) and Weijun Liu (Cedar Park, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curable composition can comprise a polymerizable material and an initiator, wherein the polymerizable material can comprise at least one multi-functional vinylbenzene monomer in an amount of at least 70 wt % based on the total weight of the polymerizable material; the at least one initiator includes an azo-compound; and wherein a cured layer of the curable composition has a linear shrinkage...