ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,518, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for predicting vent occurrence time of battery cell" was invented by Dong Wan Ko (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system for predicting a vent occurrence time of a battery cell, which includes a terrace portion having a sealing portion and provided on at least one side of a pouch type battery case and an electrode lead protruding from an end of the terrace portion, the system including a storage unit for collecting data about vent occurrence times according to widths of a remaining sealing portion...