ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,162, issued on June 9, was assigned to JIANGSU FAVORED NANOTECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Jiangsu, China).

"Curved-screen shielding device" was invented by Jian Zong (Wuxi, China) and Fuen Sun (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curved-screen shielding device is provided for shielding a curved screen assembly during a coating process. The curved-screen shielding device includes at least one template sleeve and a flexible sleeve, wherein the flexible sleeve includes a first accommodation space, and the template sleeve includes a second accommodation space. The curved screen assembly can be accommodated in the first accommodation space,...