ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,894, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).

"Stretchable device" was invented by Masatomo Hishinuma (Tokyo) and Hiroumi Kinjo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a stretchable device includes: a resin base member; and an array layer stacked on the resin base member. The resin base member includes: bodies separated from each other; and hinges that couple the bodies. Each hinge includes bends. Each bend is divided into an inner peripheral portion positioned on an inner side and an outer peripheral portion positioned on an outer side with respect to a center serving as a boundary in ...