ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,223, issued on Nov. 11, 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), Johannes Balthasar Maria Soetens (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Wilhelmus Johannes Everardus Evers (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Maurice Leonardus Johannes Janssen (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 and a second carrier movable relative to the first carrier and configured to carry a substrate having a resist layer....