ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,607, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electrode coating apparatus, and electrode manufacturing method using same" was invented by Su Min Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Seung Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyu Tae Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Su Ji Jang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode drying apparatus and a method of manufacturing an electrode using the same is provided. In the electrode drying apparatus, by inducing static electricity onto a back side of an electrode current collector of which a front surface is coated with an electrode slurry so th...