ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,476, issued on June 10, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery swelling inspection apparatus and method" was invented by Dong-Wan Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Do-Yul Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ki-Young Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Discussed is a battery swelling inspection apparatus, including an upper plate; a lower plate located to face the upper plate; a fixing frame to which a portion of the upper plate and a portion of the lower plate are fixedly coupled thereto; a pressure measurer located on at least one of an upper portion and a lower portion of the lower plate and...