US Patent Issued to NORTHVOLT on Jan. 28 for "Method and control arrangement for monitoring coating quality of secondary cells" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,986, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NORTHVOLT AB (Stockholm).

"Method and control arrangement for monitoring coating quality of secondary cells" was invented by Sean Stephenson (Burea, Sweden) and Neil Carlisle (Skelleftea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and control arrangement for monitoring coating quality during production of electrodes of secondary cells. The production of electrodes comprises a coating process including coating slurry onto a conductive substrate and drying the coated conductive substrate, and a calendering process. The method comprises measuring (S1), during the coating process and/or calende...