ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,725, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Inspection method for lithium secondary battery" was invented by Seung Gyun Hong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jong Myung Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection method for a lithium secondary battery can improve the reliability, accuracy, and reproducibility of inspection results by advancing a learning of an artificial neural network according to one or more divided regions of one or more surfaces of the lithium secondary battery and one or more types of defects occurring in each region."

The patent was filed on July ...