ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,140, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a negative electrode wherein, in the pre-lithiation of a negative electrode structure including a negative electrode active material layer formed therein through electrochemical charging in a roll-to-roll manner, the negative electrode active material...