ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,662, issued on April 22, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"All-solid-state battery comprising a pre-lithiated silicon negative electrode" was invented by Jeongbeom Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Min Sang Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Ying Shirley Meng (San Diego) and So-Yeon Ham (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a negative electrode for an all-solid-state battery and an all-solid-state battery including the negative electrode. More specifically, disclosed is a pre-lithiated silicon negative electrode, and an all-solid-state ...