ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,734, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Anode active material, method for preparing anode active material, anode comprising same, and lithium secondary battery" was invented by Dong-Sub Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun-Chul Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Chang-Ju Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sang-Wook Woo (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode active material, including: a graphite core; a first carbon coating layer on the graphite core; and a second carbon coating layer on the first carbon coating layer, wherein a crystallinity of the second carbon coa...