US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Molding system, molding method, and article manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,768, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Molding system, molding method, and article manufacturing method" was invented by Kunihiko Asada (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During a molding process for bringing a mold into contact with a substrate on which a foreign substance is inspected, thereby molding a composition on the substrate, foreign substance positions on the substrate are detected, a substrate foreign substance position where a foreign substance is present on the substrate before the molding process is started is identified among the detected foreign substance positions, and an inspection co...