ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,608, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MPLUS CORP. (Cheongun-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for controlling separator tension of laminated plates of secondary battery" was invented by Jong Sung Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Moo Yeon Ma (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sun Ho Jung (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sang Gil Park (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are a separator tension controlling apparatus and method for stacking an electrode plate of a secondary battery. The apparatus includes a separator loading member on which a fixing plate is mounted such that a separator loading unit, a separator su...