ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,995, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Negative electrode active material and lithium secondary battery comprising the same" was invented by Sung-Bin Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Bo-Na Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Dae-Hong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), In-Sun Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Wang-Mo Jung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode active material for a secondary battery, including lithium titanium-based composite particles comprising: a lithium titanium oxide represented by LixTiyOz, wherein x, y and z satisfy 0.1less than equal toxless than equ...