US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation on Aug. 25 for "Method and system for transfer printing of films" (Virginia, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,685, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Method and system for transfer printing of films" was invented by Baoxing Xu (Charlottesville, Va.) and Yue Zhang (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The capillary transfer technology presented here represents a powerful approach to transfer soft films from surface of liquid onto a solid substrate in a fast and defect-free manner. The fundamental theoretical model and transfer criteria validated with comprehensive experiments and finite element analyses, for the first time provides a quantitative guide and optimization f...