US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 8 for "Imprinting apparatus, imprinting method, and product manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,373, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imprinting apparatus, imprinting method, and product manufacturing method" was invented by Hirotoshi Torii (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imprinting apparatus that brings a mold with a pattern into contact with an imprinting material applied to a substrate and forms the pattern of the imprinting material on the substrate is provided. The imprinting apparatus includes: an imprinting head including a fixing unit, a movable unit base that is connected via a first flexible member from the fixing unit, a mold holding member that holds the mold, and a second fl...