ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,506, issued on June 17, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electrode assembly manufacturing method, electrode assembly, and electrochemical device including the same" was invented by In Hyouk Sung (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Joon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kyung Ryun Ka (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an electrode assembly manufacturing method, in which, in a step of stacking and pressing electrodes and a separator, the pressing is performed in that state in which pores of a porous substrate are filled with a polymer solution. The form or volume of the pores is not ch...