ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,733, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Negative electrode and secondary battery including the negative electrode" was invented by Joo Yul Baek (Daejeon, South Korea), Hee Won Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Yeon Ji Oh (Daejeon, South Korea) and Chan Ki Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer, wherein the negative electrode active material layer includes a negative electrode active material and a conductive agent. The negative electrode active material includes carbon-based active materi...