ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,151, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and method for controlling spread of plurality of droplets of photo-curing composition" was invented by Tomohiro Harayama (Tochigi, Japan) and Kiyohito Yamamoto (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method for generating control information for controlling spread of a plurality of droplets of a photo-curing composition arranged between a substrate and a mold, includes generating, as a part of the control information, control data that controls an irradiation condition of light to be irradiated to each of the plurality of droplets s...