ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,970, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Pouch-shaped battery cell with improved safety" was invented by Gyung Soo Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Mi Na Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hyung Kyun Yu (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a pouch-shaped battery cell with improved safety, and more particularly to a pouch-shaped battery cell including an electrode assembly, a cell case constituted by an upper case and a lower case configured to define a space portion configured to receive the electrode assembly, and a rupture induction portion. The ...