US Patent Issued to Universal Display on May 5 for "Capacitive sensor for positioning in OVJP printing" (Dutch, American, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,136, issued on May 5, was assigned to Universal Display Corp. (Ewing, N.J.).

"Capacitive sensor for positioning in OVJP printing" was invented by Bruno Kersschot (Antwerp, Belgium), Ronald Stevens (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Eric Kosters (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Ron Asjes (Valkenswaard, Netherlands), William E. Quinn (Whitehouse Station, N.J.) and Gregory McGraw (Yardley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques that include use of a capacitive sensor to permit an OVJP print head to orient itself relative to conductive or dielectric traces on a printing substrate are disclosed. Such a sensor enables real-time measuremen...