ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,681, issued on March 11, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electrode assembly, battery, and battery pack and vehicle including the same" was invented by Jong-Sik Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae-Won Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Yu-Sung Choe (Daejeon, South Korea), Hak-Kyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Je-Jun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Duk-Hyun Ryu (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwan-Hee Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Byoung-Gu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jae-Eun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same are provi...