US Patent Issued to CANON on June 10 for "Superstrate including a body and layers and methods of forming and using the same" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,046, issued on June 10, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Superstrate including a body and layers and methods of forming and using the same" was invented by Niyaz Khusnatdinov (Round Rock, Texas), Weijun Liu (Cedar Park, Texas) and James W. Irving (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superstrate can include a body, a first layer, and a second layer, wherein the first layer is disposed between the body and the second layer. Each of the first and second layers has a proximal surface and a distal surface opposite the proximal surface, wherein the body is closer to the proximal surface than to the distal surface. An Ra of t...