ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,589, issued on June 30, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Panel structure and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Shih-Liang Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Cheng-Liang Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A panel structure including a stretchable substrate, a first flexible layer, a circuit layer, multiple light-emitting elements, a filler layer, a second flexible layer, and an element layer is disclosed. The first flexible layer includes multiple pixel islands, and the pixel islands are defined by multiple through holes. Each of the through holes passes through the first flexible layer, the filler la...