US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Film forming method, film forming apparatus, and article manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,806, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Film forming method, film forming apparatus, and article manufacturing method" was invented by Kenji Yoshida (Tochigi, Japan), Hiroyuki Koide (Tochigi, Japan) and Yuma Onizawa (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A film forming method includes discretely arranging, on a substrate, a plurality of droplets of a curable composition containing a polymerizable compound that is a nonvolatile component, and a solvent that is a volatile component, analyzing an image obtained by capturing a process in which each of the plurality of droplets is connected to an adjacent drople...