ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,540, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Seoul, South Korea) and CHUNG ANG UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Transparent stretchable structure having unidirectionally oriented nanostructures and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Jeong Gon Son (Seoul, South Korea), Seungjun Chung (Seoul, South Korea), Heesuk Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Phillip Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Tae Ann Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Hong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Hur (Seoul, South Korea) and Jonghwi Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Discl...