ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,848, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Process automation system" was invented by Heung-Kun Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Choon-Kwon Kang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Discussed is a a process automation system including: a cell transferor configured to transfer battery cells; a cell inspector configured to measure an open circuit voltage of each battery cell in units of a preset number of battery cells and to sort out qualified battery cells and defective battery cells; a frame transferor configured to transfer module frames of a battery module to insert the qu...