ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,415, issued on May 27, was assigned to Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (Daejeon, South Korea) and CENTER FOR ADVANCED META-MATERIALS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Stretchable substrate and method of controlling device spacing using the same" was invented by Bongkyun Jang (Daejeon, South Korea), Sejeong Won (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae-Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hak Joo Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung-Mo Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwangseop Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ah Hyun Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stretchable substrate includes a cell and an electrode wiring. The cell is divided by ...