ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,782, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Lithium secondary battery" was invented by Insung Uhm (Daejeon, South Korea), Sin Young Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Taegon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Minchul Jang (Daejeon, South Korea), Wang Mo Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Boram Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Byoungkuk Son (Daejeon, South Korea), Eunkyung Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seongmin Ha (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a lithium secondary battery manufactured by forming a negative electrode free battery and then forming a lithium meta...