ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,868, issued on April 15, was assigned to LG CHEM Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Surface protection film" was invented by So Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Cheol Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeong Min Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Hwan Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kwang Su Seo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a surface protective film which is used in a process of fabricating an encapsulation layer for an organic light-emitting diode, and makes it possible to prevent bubbles from being generated in the protective film or the surface smoothness of the protective film from being...