ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,140, issued on March 24, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electrode cutting device" was invented by Hyeon Jin Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sin Young Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Hyeuk Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sang Wook Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for cutting an electrode of a battery includes: an all-in-one cutting cartridge module including an upper knife and a lower knife; and a cradle where the all-in-one cutting cartridge module is mounted. The all-in-one cutting cartridge module includes a module frame and an upper knife holding unit which fixes ...