ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,490, issued on June 17, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery cell with improved weldability and apparatus for processing the same" was invented by Dae Ho Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Young Jang (Daejeon, South Korea), Seong Ju Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sang Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a battery cell with improved weldability and an apparatus for processing the same, and more particularly to a battery cell including an electrode assembly received in a cell case; and a pair of electrode leads constituted by a negative electrode lead and a positiv...