ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,662, issued on July 14, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Activation tray congestion monitoring system" was invented by Tae Sung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Yoon Jong Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Ji Hye Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Woong Gun Oh (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sang Uk Yeo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An activation tray congestion monitoring system includes a tray transfer line for transferring a plurality of activation trays to an activation process and a subsequent process. A plurality of battery cells are accommodated in each of the plurality of activation trays, a maste...