ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,071, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Activation protocol generating method, and activation method and device using same" was invented by Sung-Sik Hyun (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hyun-Tae Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a charge/discharge protocol of an additional charging/discharging operation included in an activation method with respect to assembled secondary batteries is provided. The method includes operation (a) of measuring a secondary battery thickness increase rate over time while repeating chargin...