ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,834, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for inspecting outer appearance" was invented by Geun Tae Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outer appearance inspection system, which inspects an outer appearance of a secondary battery, according to the present invention includes a transfer device, which transfers the secondary battery according to an inspection position, a top and bottom inspecting device, which is disposed at a first inspection position and inspects an upper portion and a lower portion of the secondary battery, a side surface inspectin...