ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,921, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Die coater inspection device and method" was invented by Do Hyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Eui Seok Sa (Daejeon, South Korea), Myung Han Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Duck Joong Yun (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeong Yong Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Woo Jin An (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A die coater inspection device including: a sensor module configured to inspect a lip or the shim of the die coater; a control part configured to control an operation of the sensor module; and a storage part in which reference data on the thi...