US Patent Issued to CANON on May 19 for "Film forming method and article manufacturing method" (Japanese, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,718, issued on May 19, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Film forming method and article manufacturing method" was invented by Jumpei Shirono (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshiki Ito (Kanagawa, Japan) and Naoki Kiyohara (Richmond, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a film forming method comprising: discretely arranging, on a substrate with unevenness, a plurality of droplets of a curable composition in a liquid form containing at least a polymerizable compound (a) as a nonvolatile component and at least a solvent (d) as a volatile component; waiting until each of the plurality of droplets discretely a...