ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,792, issued on June 2, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Secondary battery and case, and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Byeong Kyu Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Tae Hyun Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a case for secondary battery, a secondary battery including the case, and a method for manufacturing the case for the secondary battery. According to the present disclosure, a gas discharge device can be formed in the case for a secondary battery. The case may include a recess part with a cutoff area. The gas...