G03F 7/2014
Contact or film exposure of light sensitive plates such as lithographic plates
Official title: {Contact or film exposure of light sensitive plates such as lithographic plates or circuit boards, e.g. in a vacuum frame}
G03F7/2014 (Contact or film exposure of light sensitive plates such as lithographic plates) appears on 645 US grants and 654 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G03F- Granted patents
- 645
- Published applications
- 654
- Assignees
- 325
- Inventors
- 1,421
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 34 | 25 |
| 2025 | 19 | 31 |
| 2026 | 16 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Apparatus for treating substrate and method for treating a substrate6 Oct 2026US 12,754,475 B2Semes Co., Ltd.
- Hardmask composition, hardmask layer, and pattern forming method6 Oct 2026US 12,754,481 B2Samsung SDI.Co., Ltd.
- Hybrid method of forming microstructure array molds, methods of making microstructure arrays, and methods of use15 Sep 2026US 12,734,730 B2Panther Life Sciences Corporation
- Curable water-based composition, active-energy-ray-curable water-based composition, active-energy-ray-curable water-based ink, stored container, two-dimensional or three-dimensional image forming apparatus, two-dimensional or three-dimensional image forming method, cured product, and decorated body21 Jul 2026US 12,687,780 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Composition for forming silicon-containing metal hard mask and patterning process30 Jun 2026US 12,668,700 B2Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
- High chi block copolymer (bcp) pattern on latent extreme ultraviolet (euv) images8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310085 A1APPLIED Materials.Inc.
- Photosensitive element, method for forming resist pattern, and method for manufacturing printed wiring board1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304638 A1Resonac Corporation
- Method for smoother tonal response in flexographic printing17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273977 A1Esko Software BV
- Process and system for minimizing plate deformation in the solvent-minimized manufacture of a printing plate13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233508 A1Esko-Graphics Imaging GmbH
- Method, control module and system for imaging a mask layer2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184096 A1Xsys Prepress NV
Most cited
By later US patents
- Semiconductor substrate process using an optically writable carbon-containing mask539US 7,429,532 B2APPLIED Materials.Inc. · 2008
- Flexographic printing element having an IR ablatable layer and process for making a flexographic printing plate200US 5,262,275 AE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company · 1993
- Three dimensional micro machining with a modulated ultra-short laser pulse140US 6,285,002 B12001
- Sub-wavelength aperture arrays with enhanced light transmission137US 5,973,316 ANEC Research Institute, Inc. · 1999
- Flexographic element having an infrared ablatable layer132US 6,238,837 B1E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company · 2001