ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,713, issued on June 23, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Imprinting apparatus" was invented by Didier Mathijs Maria Justina Petit (Aachen, Germany), Marcus Antonius Verschuuren (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Johannes Balthasar Maria Soetens (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Maurice Leonardus Johannes Janssen (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imprinting apparatus comprises a first carrier for carrying a flexible stamp, a set of carrier actuators for translating the first carrier in a direction parallel to a plane of the first carrier, and a second carrier movable relative to the first carrier ...