ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,147, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Imprinting apparatus" was invented by Didier Mathijs Maria Justina Petit (Aachen, Germany), Marcus Antonius Verschuuren (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Jens Udo Barendt (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imprinting apparatus comprises a first carrier for carrying a flexible stamp having an imprinting pattern and a second carrier movable relative to the first carrier and configured to carry a substrate having a resist layer. The second carrier comprises a chuck and an interface plate over the chuck, wherein the interface plate compri...