US Patent Issued to SK ON on Sept. 30 for "Lithium secondary battery and method of fabricating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,569, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SK ON Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Lithium secondary battery and method of fabricating the same" was invented by Jong Hyuk Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Su Hee Han (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a stack structure including a plurality of pouch cells and an elastic foam layer formed on an outer surface of at least one of the plurality of pouch cells. A uniform pressure may be provided by the elastic foam layer to prevent deformation of the battery due to contraction and expansion ...