ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,785, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Protection device for preventing reverse connection" was invented by Sunwoo Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Suyeup Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection device of an electronic device can include a first switch having an input terminal, a first output terminal connected to a first node, and a second output terminal connected to a second node; and a second switch having an input terminal, a first output terminal connected to a third node, and a second output terminal connected to a fourth node. In a first relay, a r...