ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,045, issued on April 14, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).
"Manufacturing equipment for light-emitting device" was invented by Shunpei Yamazaki (Setagaya, Japan), Ryota Hodo (Atsugi, Japan), Yasuhiro Jinbo (Isehara, Japan) and Kenichi Okazaki (Atsugi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Manufacturing equipment in which processes from processing to sealing of an organic compound film can be successively performed is provided. A patterning process of a light-emitting device and a sealing process that is performed to prevent the surface and side surface of an organic layer from being exposed to ...