ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,807, issued on June 3, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and CHUNG ANG University industry Academic Cooperation Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of manufacturing dry binders for electrodes and method of manufacturing dry electrodes including dry binders" was invented by Kyeong Wi Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Han Nah Song (Ansan-si, South Korea), Sang Wook Han (Ansan-si, South Korea), In Ho Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Ho Jong Eom (Seoul, South Korea) and Ji Hyeon Kang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a method of manufacturing dry bind...