ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,995, issued on June 3, was assigned to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Vapor deposition apparatus, vapor deposition method, and method for manufacturing organic EL display apparatus" was invented by Koshi Nishida (Osaka, Japan), Kozo Yano (Osaka, Japan), Katsuhiko Kishimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Susumu Sakio (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vapor deposition method and a vapor deposition apparatus that, when a vapor deposition material is deposited on a substrate, make it possible to form deposition layer pattern precisely so that the deposition layer pattern is formed uniformly without a gap forme...