ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,499, issued on July 21, was assigned to Daktronics Inc. (Brookings, S.D.).
"Controlling adhesive reflow for transfer printing" was invented by Salvatore Bonafede (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Carl Ray Prevatte Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.), Christopher Andrew Bower (Raleigh, N.C.), Brook Raymond (Cary, N.C.), Matthew Alexander Meitl (Durham, N.C.), Ronald S. Cok (Rochester, N.Y.) and Andrew Tyler Pearson (Durham, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of making a printed structure include providing a target substrate, coating the target substrate with an uncured adhesive, disposing a component on the uncured adhesive, processing the uncured adhesi...