ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,786, issued on June 3, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Negative electrode for lithium secondary battery, and magnetic alignment device for negative electrode for same" was invented by Jong Su Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea), Young Gon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Taek Soo Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Cho (Daejeon, South Korea) and Shin Wook Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic alignment device applies a magnetic field to a negative electrode slurry by introducing a magnet part to an upper and a lower portion of a negative electrode current collector to which the negative ...