US Patent Issued to Samsung Display on Aug. 5 for "Mask, mask assembly, and apparatus for manufacturing display apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,655, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Mask, mask assembly, and apparatus for manufacturing display apparatus" was invented by Daewon Baek (Yongin-si, South Korea), Minji Jang (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jongbum Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mask including: a deposition pattern portion including a plurality of deposition holes that are configured to have deposition material pass therethrough; and a dummy pattern portion outside the deposition pattern portion, wherein the dummy pattern portion includes an auxetic structure having a negative Poisson's ra...