ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,006, issued on July 29, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Stretchable electronic device" was invented by Jae Bon Koo (Daejeon, South Korea), Ji-Young Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Himchan Oh (Daejeon, South Korea) and Chan Woo Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a stretchable electronic device. The stretchable electronic device includes: a substrate; a plurality of electronic elements disposed on the substrate; and a line part configured to connect the electronic elements on the substrate and having a curved portion. Here, the line part includ...