US Patent Issued to Mycronic on Sept. 1 for "Edge placement with spatial light modulator writing" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,352, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Mycronic AB (Taby, Sweden).

"Edge placement with spatial light modulator writing" was invented by Martin Glimtoft (Alvsjo, Sweden), Jan Sterner (Sollentuna, Sweden), Robert Eklund (Taby, Sweden), Fredric Ihren (Taby, Sweden) and Pontus Stenstrom (Akersberga, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing pixel data for writing with SLM comprises obtaining (S10) of data representing a pattern. The data is rasterized (S20) to a grid of pixels. The rasterizing comprises assigning (S22) of an edge adjustment value to pixels covering an edge of the pattern. The rasterized pattern is di...