ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,722, issued on April 22, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Fixing structure of electrode terminal, and battery, battery pack and vehicle including the same" was invented by Geon-Woo Min (Daejeon, South Korea), Min-Ki Jo (Daejeon, South Korea), Do-Gyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwang-Su Hwangbo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jae-Woong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing structure of an electrode includes a battery housing having a bottom with a perforation hole; an electrode terminal fixed to the bottom; and a terminal gasket interposed between the electrode terminal and the bott...