ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,324, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electrode drying system" was invented by Young-Kuk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Young-Gyu Moon (Daejeon, South Korea), Shin-Wook Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang-Hoon Choy (Daejeon, South Korea) and Soon-Sik Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode drying system includes a drying oven configured to dry a solvent in an electrode active material slurry on an electrode sheet in which the electrode active material slurry is applied to a current collector, an air supply member configured to supply air to the drying oven, and...