ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,987, issued on March 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Apparatus and method for curing formable material" was invented by Niyaz Khusnatdinov (Round Rock, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods are provided for curing formable material between a substrate and a superstrate. The apparatus may include a substrate chuck configured to hold the substrate and a plurality of light sources configured to provide a uniform distribution of light to a surface of the formable material in contact with a featureless surface of the superstrate, the plurality of light sources having mixed polarizations relative to each othe...