US Patent Issued to LG ENERGY SOLUTION on Sept. 30 for "Globular carbon-based anode active material, method for manufacturing same, and anode and lithium secondary battery comprising same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,497, issued on Sept. 30, 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 Chang-Ju Lee (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 scaly graphite, solid pitch and liquid pitch to form a mixture, and spheronizing the mixture to prepare spheronized granulated particles; fir...