ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,875, issued on March 24, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device and method for inspecting welded state for cylindrical secondary battery" was invented by Jung Hoon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Su Taek Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Seok Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Ji Hoon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Hyun Koo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Min Wook Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for inspecting a welded state of a plurality of welded portions coupling a non-coating portion of an electrode to an electrode tab includes a resistance measurer having a plurality of resista...