US Patent Issued to NIL Technology on Oct. 27 for "Electrostatic clamping of electrically insulating substrates" (Danish, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,240, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NIL Technology ApS (Denmark).

"Electrostatic clamping of electrically insulating substrates" was invented by Brian Bilenberg (Olstykke, Denmark), Soren Fricke (Zofingen, Switzerland) and Lars Hagedorn Frandsen (Tarnby, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example implementation, an apparatus includes an electrically insulating substrate, optical elements in or on the substrate, and electrically conductive material on a surface of the substrate and laterally surrounding at least some of the optical elements. The electrically conductive material facilitates clamping of the electrically in...