ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,571, issued on June 17, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Top insulator for secondary battery and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Byoung Gu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Do Gyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Suk Jung (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hang Soo Shin (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To solve the above problem, a method for manufacturing a top insulator configured to be inserted into a case of a secondary battery, according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: preparing a top insulator fabric by applying a silicone rubber to at least one surface...