ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,688, issued on July 29, was assigned to BATTERY SOLUTION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Positive active material, method of preparing the same, and lithium secondary battery including the same" was invented by Yang-Kook Sun (Seoul, South Korea) and Chong-Seung Yoon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a positive active material in which a compound containing lithium, a transition metal, and oxygen is doped with a doping metal, the positive active material including lithium (Li) layers, in which the lithium layers may include a first lithium layer including only lithium and a second lithium layer in which at least a ...