US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 15 for "Simulation method, simulation apparatus, film forming apparatus, article manufacturing method and non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,512, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Simulation method, simulation apparatus, film forming apparatus, article manufacturing method and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Ken Katsuta (Saitama, Japan), Sentaro Aihara (Tochigi, Japan) and Yuichiro Oguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a simulation method of predicting a behavior of a curable composition in a process of bringing a plurality of droplets of the curable composition arranged on a first member into contact with a second member and forming a film of the curable composition in a space between the first ...