ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,420, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to INCECO Co. LTD. (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

"Protection device for secondary battery and battery pack including the same" was invented by Se Hee Won (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a protection device for a secondary battery in which two flux cores are embedded in a fusible element to be separated from each other and be disposed adjacent to fusible element electrodes on both sides of the fusible element so that it is not necessary to apply a flux onto the surface of the fusible element, a manufacturing process for uniformly applying the flux is eliminated to...