US Patent Issued to Canon on July 15 for "Method for fabricating pattern of cured product and methods for manufacturing optical component, circuit board and quartz mold replica as well as coating material for imprint pretreatment and cured product thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,176, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method for fabricating pattern of cured product and methods for manufacturing optical component, circuit board and quartz mold replica as well as coating material for imprint pretreatment and cured product thereof" was invented by Jun Kato (Utsunomiya, Japan) and Toshiki Ito (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for fabricating pattern of a cured product includes a first step (arranging step) of arranging a layer formed of a liquid film of a curable composition (Alpha1) containing at least a component (A1) serving as a polymerizable compound on a substr...