US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG SDI on Feb. 3 for "Negative active material and rechargeable lithium battery including same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,272, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDI Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Negative active material and rechargeable lithium battery including same" was invented by Eunjoo Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yongseok Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jaewon Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jaehou Nah (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Kyeu Yoon Sheem (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative active material for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery, the negative active material includes a porous silicon-carbon composite that includes silicon, carbon, and magnesium silicate (MgSiO3), wherein...