ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,185, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to APPLIED MATERIALS Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and apparatus for inkjet printing self-assembled monoloayer (SAM) structures on substrates" was invented by Yingdong Luo (Newark, Calif.), Rami Hourani (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xiaopei Deng (San Jose, Calif.), Kang Luo (San Jose, Calif.), Erica Chen (Cupertino, Calif.) and Ludovic Godet (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, systems, and apparatus for inkjet printing self-assembled monolayer (SAM) structures on substrates. In one embodiment, which can be combined wi...