ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,474, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electrode drying method capable of suppressing binder swelling and electrode drying system using same" was invented by Chang Ju Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Wook Woo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Suk In Noh (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode drying method including: constant-rate-drying an electrode substrate coated with an electrode slurry while the electrode substrate is moved in a state that the electrode substrate makes a tilt angle with a horizontal plane; and falling-rate-drying the electrode substrate while the ...