ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,261, issued on March 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Pouched-type secondary battery packaging equipment" was invented by Jinwoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Taeyong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hankwon Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Seungjin Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Heejeong Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Jongwon Kwak (Seoul, South Korea), Seongho Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Dongho Park (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunik Son (Seoul, South Korea) and Chimin Yang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiment comprises: a pallet on which a cell assembly, in which a cell is accommodated inside a pou...