ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,248, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Pattern electrode structure for electro-wetting apparatus" was invented by Kwang-Joon Han (Whasung-Si, South Korea), Jai-Min Han (Whasung-Si, South Korea) and Byung-Kyu Cho (Whasung-Si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pattern electrode structure, which is stacked between a base material and a dielectric layer of an electro-wetting apparatus, includes a plurality of branch electrodes formed in a direction perpendicular to an arbitrary plane perpendicular to a plane formed by the pattern electrode structure t...