ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,482, issued on July 29, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Stretchable substrate and stretchable display device" was invented by Cheng-Wei Jiang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Yi-Da He (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stretchable substrate metal structure includes a patterned insulating structure, conductive wires, display elements, and covering layers. The patterned insulating structure includes device portions and circuit portions. The surface of each device portion has at least one first groove. At least two of the device portion are separated by a recess. A width of each circuit portion is less than a width ...