US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 9 for "Method and system for switching a dispensed fluid in a nanofabrication dispensing system" (Pennsylvania, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,466, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method and system for switching a dispensed fluid in a nanofabrication dispensing system" was invented by Tyler Pearce Mann (Reading, Pa.) and Steven C. Shackleton (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of switching a first fluid supplied to a dispenser with a second fluid. The method includes stopping the first fluid from flowing into a common portion of a flow system, causing a flush fluid to flow through the common portion, stopping the flush fluid from flowing into the common portion, removing the flush fluid from the common portion, causing the second ...