ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,898, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Deposition mask and method of manufacturing the deposition mask" was invented by Hwi Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), In Bae Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Soon Im (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyu Hwan Hwang (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a deposition mask includes preparing a mask-target substrate which has one surface on which a sacrificed layer pattern is formed and comprises a cover area covered by the sacrificed layer pattern and a plurality of exposed areas exposed by the sacrificed layer ...