ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,229, issued on July 7, was assigned to DARWIN PRECISIONS Corp. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Metal mask" was invented by Chi-Wei Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chi-Wei Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal mask includes a metal body and a plurality of through-holes. The metal body has a first surface and a second surface, and the plurality of through-holes penetrate the metal body and respectively have openings on the first surface and the second surface, where each of the through-holes has a first opening, a second opening, and a third opening. The first opening is formed on the first surface; the second o...