G03F 7/202
Masking pattern being obtained by thermal means
Official title: {Masking pattern being obtained by thermal means, e.g. laser ablation}
G03F7/202 (Masking pattern being obtained by thermal means) appears on 232 US grants and 243 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G03F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 243
- Assignees
- 93
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 4 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Composition for forming silicon-containing metal hard mask and patterning process30 Jun 2026US 12,668,700 B2Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
- Method for smoother tonal response in flexographic printing26 May 2026US 12,636,900 B2Esko Software BV
- Surface topologies of electrostatic substrate support for particle reduction3 Feb 2026US 12,542,260 B2APPLIED Materials.Inc.
- Mask for low contrast printed highlights16 Dec 2025US 12,496,846 B2Miraclon Corporation
- High chi block copolymer (bcp) pattern on latent extreme ultraviolet (euv) images8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310085 A1APPLIED Materials.Inc.
- 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
- Flexographic printing plate precursor and manufacturing method of flexographic printing plate18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169381 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Laminate for producing water-developable flexographic printing plate precursor23 Apr 2026US 2026/0109167 A1TOYOBO MC Corporation
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
- Flexographic element having an infrared ablatable layer132US 6,238,837 B1E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company · 2001
- Coated transparent film for laser imaging107US 4,245,003 AJames River Graphics, Inc. · 1981