ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,906, issued on May 27, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of preparing negative electrode" was invented by Oh Byong Chae (Daejeon, South Korea), Ye Ri Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Su Yeon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seung Hae Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of preparing a negative electrode which includes the steps of: forming a cell by sequentially stacking a preliminary negative electrode, a separator, and a lithium metal, immersing the cell in an electrolyte solution comprising a lithium salt and a solvent; applying a current after the cell is im...