ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,097, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SK On Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) and HANA TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method for charging and discharging battery" was invented by Ji Won Na (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Yeop Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Eun Soo Cho (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for charging and discharging a battery, includes, operations of: manufacturing a battery by coupling a battery case and battery electrodes and injecting an electrolyte into the battery case; and activating a battery by inputting a current pulse having a predetermined period to the battery electro...