ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,197, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Negative electrode and lithium secondary battery" was invented by Shulkee Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyutae Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Cheoljin Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwang Ho Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea), Gayoung Lim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Wonhee Jung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode for a secondary battery includes a current collector and a negative electrode active material layer provided on at least one surface of the current collector. The negative electrode active material layer includes a first...