ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,308, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery valve and battery including the same" was invented by Hun Hee Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyung Kyun Yu (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Hun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Min Hyeong Kang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Discussed is a battery valve configured to discharge a gas inside a battery to the outside, the battery valve including a communicator configured to receive a battery valve opening/closing command from an external device; and an opening/closing controller configured to open or close a passage through which t...