ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,280, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Secondary battery" was invented by Hak-Yoon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Seong-Wook Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong-Oh Shin (Daejeon, South Korea), Nam-Jeong Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Moon-Soo Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a secondary battery including: a positive electrode including a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer located on the positive electrode current collector and including a positive electrode active material, a positive electrode conductive mat...