ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,239, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ENERGY TECH SOLUTION Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"In-line manufacturing apparatus for lithium metal battery" was invented by Young Hwan Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-line manufacturing apparatus for a lithium metal battery comprises: a lithium foil tape unwinder peeling a release film on the lithium foil tape and transferring the lithium foil tape peeled off the release film to a notching part; the notching part forming an anode plate having an electrode tab by processing the lithium foil tape; and a stacking part inserting a separator film between the anode pl...