ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,573, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDI Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea) and NSYS Corp..

"System for finding black spots in a separator from a rechargeable battery cell" was invented by Seungwoo Lyu (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jungyi Yu (Yongin-si, South Korea), Changyeon Hwang (Yongin-si, South Korea), Leehwan An (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Bong-Kil Moon (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for finding black spots in a separator includes a winder, a rewinder that takes out and winds a separator from a rechargeable battery cell and supplies a sample of the separator; a foreign material remover ...