ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,167, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MPLUS CORP. (Cheongun-si, South Korea).

"Automatic supply apparatus of secondary battery electrodes and method of automatically supplying secondary battery electrodes" was invented by Jong Sung Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sun Ho Kang (Cheongju-si, South Korea) and Jin Kyu Jun (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic supply apparatus of secondary battery electrodes, which includes an electrode supply hoist 120; a supply shuttle 130 receiving electrodes in the form of reels from the electrode supply hoist 120; a first unwinder 140 and a second unwinder 150 dispose...