ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,153, issued on March 25, was assigned to OSRAM OLED GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for forming a layer of a material provided in a flowable state on an optoelectronic light-emitting device" was invented by Simon D. Jerebic (Donaustauf, Germany) and Daniel Leisen (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment an apparatus includes a delimiting device and a holding device configured to hold the delimiting device at a distance above an optoelectronic light-emitting device and form a layer of a material provided in a flowable state between the delimiting device and the light-emitting device, wher...