ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,495, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) (Seoul, South Korea).

"Positive electrode active material having surface portion doped with hetero elements, and method for producing same" was invented by Yang-Kook Sun (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to: a positive electrode active material precursor containing first secondary particle composed of an aggregate of a plurality of first primary particles, the positive electrode active material precursor including a first center portion represented by chemical formula 1 and...