ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,378, issued on May 20, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

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

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