ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,024, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Mask stage and method of manufacturing mask assembly" was invented by Myungkyu Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Changkon Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sukbeom You (Yongin-si, South Korea), Dongjae Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Kyongho Hong (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mask stage includes plates disposed adjacent to each other, the plates forming a closed loop in a plan view, and a connection portion connecting adjacent ones among the plates to each other, the connection portion being detachable from the plates. T...