ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,398, issued on April 22, was assigned to BS TECHNICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and KOREA ELECTRIC TERMINAL Co. LTD (Incheon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for manufacturing insulating sheet" was invented by Jun Sik Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jung Sik Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Young Do Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Tae Yeon Jo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an insulating sheet, comprising: forming at least a groove on a flat sheet; a first cutting step for cutting a side surface of the groove by irradiating a laser beam to a side surface o...