ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,925, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electrode drying device equipped with water supply part, and method for drying electrode using same" was invented by Kyoung Ho Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electrode drying apparatus including a moisture supply unit capable of setting the internal temperature of a drying oven to a reference value, which is a level at which the drying of an electrode to be dried is stabilized, before an electrode drying process using hot air is started, thereby preventing the electrode from being fractured by over-drying at t...