ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,358, issued on March 25, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Eddy current sensor for detecting crack of battery cell and system for detecting crack of battery including the same" was invented by Ji Won Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwang Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Yeon Hyuk Heo (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Won Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Eun Gu Han (Daejeon, South Korea), Min Su Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Myung Han Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an eddy current sensor for detecting a crack in a battery cell, and a system for detecting a...