ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,017, issued on March 4, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Binder for negative electrode of lithium secondary battery and negative electrode for lithium secondary battery including the same" was invented by Chan-Soo Jun (Daejeon, South Korea), Young-Jae Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Ye-Lin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jung-Woo Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery having excellent dispersibility, adhesion and tensile strength, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. The negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery inc...