ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,864, issued on April 29, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electrode rolling apparatus and electrode rolling method" was invented by A Hae Jo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jee Eun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an electrode rolling apparatus and an electrode rolling method, and the apparatus includes: a pair of rolling rolls which roll an electrode; and an adhesive tape which is inserted into the rolling rolls together with the electrode and is rolled together with the electrode, and is then separated from the electrode."

The patent was filed on Nov....