US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 16 for "Method and apparatus for identifying positions of a spatial light modulator relative to a template edge" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,644, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for identifying positions of a spatial light modulator relative to a template edge" was invented by Mehul N. Patel (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying pixels corresponding to an imprint field edge. Generating a set of pixel patterns, each pixel pattern from the set of pixel patterns including edge pixels predicted to be near the imprint field edge of a test imprint field and central pixels corresponding to a center portion of the test imprint field, wherein the edge pixels are turned on, each pixel pattern from the set...