ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,746, issued on July 15, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Automatic electrode supply apparatus for manufacture of secondary battery and automatic electrode supply method using the same" was invented by Young Soo Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Soo Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Bae Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hong Ju Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic electrode supply apparatus configured to automatically supply an electrode in various processes for manufacturing a secondary battery includes a first chuck splicing unit including a splicing portion having a travel...