ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,851, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for manufacturing anode for lithium secondary battery" was invented by Suk Il Youn (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an anode for a lithium secondary battery comprises: preparing a lithium transfer film by forming a lithium layer on a protection layer of a transfer film, wherein the transfer film includes a substrate and the protective layer; and preparing a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material layer formed on a current collector, and transferring the lithium transfer film...