ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,491, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of preparing lithium metal electrode and lithium metal secondary battery" was invented by Keon Je Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Soo Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ki Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a lithium metal electrode, wherein the method includes providing a lithium metal strip, and providing a lubricant composition including a fluorine-based solvent and a fluorine-based compound on the lithium metal strip to obtain a coated lithium metal strip; and rolling the coated lithium metal s...