ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,449, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).

"Film-laminated metal sheet and method of producing the same, substrate for flexible electronics, and organic EL substrate" was invented by Soichi Fujimoto (Tokyo) and Yasuhide Oshima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A film-laminated metal sheet satisfies smoothness, heat resistance, flexibility, and gas barrier properties and has a low environmental burden and excellent productivity and a method produces the metal sheet, a substrate for flexible electronics, and an organic EL substrate. The film-laminated metal sheet has at least one surface covered with a resin...