ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,736, issued on May 27, was assigned to KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION, SEJONG CAMPUS (Sejong-si, South Korea).

"Stretchable display" was invented by Mun Pyo Hong (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sang Il Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jeong Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a stretchable display partitioned into a high-stretchable region and a low-stretchable region having a modulus higher than a modulus of the high-stretchable region, in which the low-stretchable region has a shape of a plurality of islands spaced apart from each other, and the high-stretchable region includes: a ...