ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,481, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for pre-lithiation of negative electrode, pre-lithiated negative electrode and lithium secondary battery including the same" was invented by Seo-Young Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea), Ye-Ri Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Su-Yeon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Oh-Byong Chae (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seung-Hae Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for pre-lithiation of a negative electrode including the steps of: interposing a separator between a lithium ion-supplying metal sheet and a negative electrode to prepare a sim...