ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,775, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus for cutting separator" was invented by Yong Hyun Kang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sung Dong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator cutting apparatus includes: a fixing part configured to fix temporarily the electrode assembly; a cutter supporting part disposed above the fixing part; a cutter part disposed below the cutter supporting part, and configured to cut a separator among the electrode assembly temporarily fixed to the fixing part; and a spring part configured to connect elastically the cutter supporting p...