ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,419, issued on May 20, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Negative electrode and secondary battery including the same" was invented by Su Min Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Yong Ju Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Hyuk Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Se Mi Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a negative electrode which includes a negative electrode current collector, and a negative electrode active material layer formed on the negative electrode current collector, wherein the negative electrode active material layer includes a silicon-based active material ...