ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,718, issued on July 29, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery member, method for manufacturing battery member, and secondary battery" was invented by Hideyuki Ogawa (Tokyo), Takuya Nishimura (Tokyo), Yusuke Sera (Tokyo), Masayo Horikawa (Tokyo) and Akihiro Orita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery member includes: a current collector; an electrode mixture layer provided on the current collector; and an electrolyte layer provided on the electrode mixture layer, in which the electrode mixture layer contains an electrode active material, an organic solvent, a polymer, and an electrolyte salt...