ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,890, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Metal support and flexible display device" was invented by Haoran Wang (Beijing) and Paoming Tsai (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a metal support including a bendable region, a non-bendable region, and at least one patterned region covering at least the bendable region. The bendable region is capable of bending in a first direction, a plurality of columns of hollowed-out parts arranged side by side along the first direction are arranged in the patterned region, each column of the hollowed-out parts includes a ...