ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,424, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Coating apparatus and coating method capable of easily adjusting thickness of coating layer" was invented by In Hyouk Sung (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyung Ryun Ka (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ji Su Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating apparatus for continuously forming a coating layer on each surface of a substrate film includes a water tank located on a movement path of the substrate film, a water tank partition vertically located in the water tank, the water tank partition being configured to partition an inner space o...