ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,272, issued on July 1, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Manufacture of a curved electronic device using differential heating and curved electronic device" was invented by Margaretha Maria De Kok (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Roel Henry Louis Kusters (Sittard, Netherlands), Jan Pieter Hein Van Delft (Westerhoven, Netherlands), Jeroen Franciscus Marinus Schram (Waalre, Netherlands), Adri Van Der Waal (Zaltbommel, Netherlands), Jan-Eric Jack Martijn Rubingh (Geldrop, Netherlands) and Jeroen Van Den Brand (Goirle, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office...