ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,380, issued on April 15, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery current collector comprising metal plate having through holes and porous reinforcing material that fills through holes, and secondary battery comprising same" was invented by Yo Han Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Noh Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jong Pil Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to: a current collector comprising a metal plate having a plurality of through holes formed in the thickness direction, and a porous reinforcing material filling the through holes of the metal plate; ...