ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,512, issued on June 16, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Secondary battery and battery module including the same" was invented by Hun-Hee Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang-Hun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Min-Hyeong Kang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hyung-Kyun Yu (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a secondary battery including: an electrode assembly including electrode sheets and a separator interposed between the electrode sheets; a pouch-like battery casing in which the electrode assembly is received; an electrode lead connected to the electrode assembly and protruding out fr...