ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,678, issued on June 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Imprinting method and manufacturing method" was invented by Tsutomu Hashimoto (Utsunomiya, Japan) and Kiyohito Yamamoto (Utsunomiya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imprinting method for forming a pattern on a substrate with use of a mold, includes performing a running-in process in which the mold is brought into contact with a composition on a first substrate held by a holding unit, the composition on the first substrate is exposed, and the mold is released. After the running-in process, the method includes performing an imprinting process in which the mold is brou...