Patents Examined by Petsum Abraham
  • Method for topographical patterning of materials
    Patent number: 6559474
    Abstract: A method of patterning a preselected material on a substrate is provided, comprising coating a substrate surface with a releasable polymer coating, creating one or more openings through the polymer coating to expose a portion of the substrate surface in a predefined pattern, coating at least a portion of the substrate surface that is exposed through the polymer coating with at least one preselected material, and optionally, removing said polymer coating so that the material is retained on said substrate surface in said predefined pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc,
    Inventors: Harold G. Craighead, Bojan Ilic