US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG SDI on Jan. 28 for "Negative active material for rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery including same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,001, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDI Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Negative active material for rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery including same" was invented by Ilyoung Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea), Soonbong Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea), Joongho Moon (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Hee Seon Choi (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 including the same, the negative active material including a rod-shaped crystalline carbon; and a silicon-carbon composite."

The patent was fi...