ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,251, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Globular carbon-based anode active material, method for manufacturing same, and anode and lithium secondary battery comprising same" was invented by Hyun-Chul Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang-Wook Woo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Dong-Sub Jung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a spheronized carbonaceous negative electrode active material, including the steps of: mixing microgranular scaly graphite with macrogranular scaly graphite, wherein the macrogranular scaly graphite has a larger average particle diamete...