ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,562, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Lithium battery and method of preparing the same" was invented by Victor Roev (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jusik Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Myungjin Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium battery including a cathode, an anode, a liquid-impermeable ion-conductive membrane between the cathode and the anode, and an interlayer including a metal-carbon composite between the anode and the liquid-impermeable ion-conductive membrane, wherein the metal-carbon composite includes a carbonaceous material, a metal che...