ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,152, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Processing apparatus and processing method" was invented by Jeongjin Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yong-Hoon Kwon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Byunghoon Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Taeoh Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing apparatus includes a first processing unit to spray a mixture into a first region of a processing target, and a second processing unit to irradiate a beam into the first region of the processing target, and maintain a temperature of the first region to a predetermined temperature or...