ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,020, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Artificial graphite, method for preparing artificial graphite, anode comprising same, and lithium secondary battery" was invented by Suk-In Noh (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang-Wook Woo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yong-Ju Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing artificial graphite, including the steps of: pulverizing a carbonaceous material; carrying out a first deferrization to remove magnetic foreign materials generated by pulverizing the carbonaceous material to form a first deferrization product; granulating t...