ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,614, issued on May 5, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Roll for supporting electrode and electrode manufacturing apparatus including the same" was invented by Won Seob Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Hwan Han Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jaehyuk Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Soohyung Hong (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode supporting roll according to an embodiment of the present invention supports an electrode sheet, and includes: a main roll that includes a plurality of sub-rolls rotatably coupled to a single first shaft, while being in contact with the electrode sheet; and a...