ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,945, issued on April 29, was assigned to Kateeva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).
"Method and apparatus for load-locked printing" was invented by Sass Somekh (Los Altos, Calif.), Eliyahu Vronsky (Los Altos, Calif.) and Conor F. Madigan (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for preventing oxidation or contamination during a circuit printing operation. The circuit printing operation can be directed to OLED-type printing. In an exemplary embodiment, the printing process is conducted at a load-locked printer housing having one or more of chambers. Each chamber is partitioned from the other ch...