Patent 7736558 was granted and assigned to Hitachi Maxell on June, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Provided is an imprint method that includes the steps of softening resist in an object to be processed, by using compressed gas or supercritical fluid, the object including a substrate and the resist applied onto the substrate, and transferring a predetermined pattern onto the resist by pressing a mold that forms the predetermined pattern against the resist in the object.