ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,216, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus for manufacturing electrode assembly, electrode assembly manufactured therethrough, and secondary battery" was invented by Woong Ki Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Don Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sang Uk Yeo (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for manufacturing an electrode assembly includes a first roller and a second roller, which press both sides of a stack, in which electrodes and a separator are alternately stacked, a first elastic layer provided along an outer circumferential surface of the first ...