ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,977, issued on June 17, was assigned to HANA TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Thin glass plate processing apparatus and method" was invented by Chang Seock Lee (Cheonan-si, South Korea) and Kyoung Ho Choi (Goyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a thin glass plate processing apparatus and method. More particularly, proposed is a thin glass plate processing apparatus and method, in which at least a side of a heating part presses a glass plate on a jig with a substantially uniform pressure along a processing orthogonal direction, thereby constantly controlling the amount of glass removed during a...