ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,065, issued on July 21, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electrode assembly and secondary battery including the same" was invented by Jin Soo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hyoung Kwon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode assembly includes a first electrode; a second electrode; a separation membrane interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the first electrode, the second electrode, and the separation membrane are wound together to form a jelly-roll structure; and an auxiliary separation membrane disposed between the first electrode and the...