ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,676, issued on June 24, was assigned to TCL TECHNOLOGY GROUP Corp. (Guangdong, China).

"Encapsulated film and luminescent device including laminated barrier and surfactant layers" was invented by Jin Wang (Guangdong, China), Weiran Cao (Guangdong, China) and Lei Qian (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encapsulated film and a method for encapsulating luminescent device, and a luminescent device, the encapsulated film includes N laminated units, each of the laminated units is composed of barrier layers and surfactant layers which are arranged to be sequentially laminated, the barrier layers and the surfactant layers al...