US Patent Issued to CANON on Dec. 23 for "System and method of generating a modulation map for a spatial light modulator to illuminate a template used in a photomechanical shaping system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,531, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"System and method of generating a modulation map for a spatial light modulator to illuminate a template used in a photomechanical shaping system" was invented by Nilabh K. Roy (Austin, Texas) and Mehul N. Patel (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for generating a modulation map to be supplied a spatial light modulator of a nanoimprint lithography system. Receiving a pixelated intermediate map for a spatial light modulator including a plurality of pixels based on a distortion model and a target light pattern. The pixelated intermediate map may h...