US Patent Issued to Kateeva on June 17 for "Techniques for arrayed printing of a permanent layer with improved speed and accuracy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,178, issued on June 17, was assigned to Kateeva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Techniques for arrayed printing of a permanent layer with improved speed and accuracy" was invented by Michael Baker (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Nahid Harjee (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Douglas Bacon (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A repeatable manufacturing process uses a printer to deposits liquid for each product carried by a substrate to form respective thin films. The liquid is dried, cured or otherwise processed to form from the liquid a permanent layer of each respective product. To perform printing, each newly-introduced substrate is roughly mecha...