ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,571, issued on March 31, was assigned to DUK SAN NEOLUX Co. LTD. (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

"Method for preparing pixel define layer" was invented by Jun Bae (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Changmin Lee (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Yeon Soo Lee (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Soung Yun Mun (Cheonan-si, South Korea) and Kyung Soo Kim (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pixel separation layer used in OLED displays has a plastic hardness of 500 N/mm2 or more and a modulus of 7,000 Mpa or more; however, since the pixel separation layer requires a polarizing plate, it has a physical disadvantage in that it is not bendable and...