US Patent Issued to LG ENERGY SOLUTION on July 21 for "Non-destructive method for detecting failure of cell" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,585, issued on July 21, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Non-destructive method for detecting failure of cell" was invented by Youngdeok Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Daesoo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Joonhyeon Kang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for non-destructively detecting failure of a cell is disclosed. The method may include preparing a cell containing a carbon-based material as an anode active material, charging the cell, x-ray diffraction (XRD) scanning the charged cell inward from an end of an anode, and determining whether or not an LiC6 peak of the anode is ob...