ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,774, issued on April 15, was assigned to SK MICROWORKS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Polyester protection film for flexible display device" was invented by Young Min Heo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Gun Uk Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sechul Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jin-Seok Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection film according to an embodiment implements a very low reflectivity through a multilayer structure of which the refractive index is controlled and does not cause whitening and cracking to occur even in the case of frequent bending or folding thereof. Accordingly, the prot...