ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,283, issued on March 25, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Anode pre-lithiation-pre-sodiation method, pre-lithiated and pre-sodiated anode, and lithium secondary battery comprising same" was invented by Oh-Byong Chae (Daejeon, South Korea), Ye-Ri Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seung-Hae Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for pre-lithiation and pre-sodiation of a negative electrode, including the steps of: preparing a negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector, and a negative electrode active material layer on at least one surface of the negative e...