ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,032, issued on July 8, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Alkynated and methyl sulfonated imidazoline non-aqueous electrolyte additive and nonaqueous electrolyte solution for lithium secondary battery including the same and lithium secondary battery" was invented by Yoo Sun Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Chul Haeng Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Hoon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sol Ji Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jae Won Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrolyte solution additive for a lithium secondary battery, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary batt...