ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,084, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDI Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Negative active material and rechargeable lithium battery including same" was invented by Jongmin Won (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jaehou Nah (Yongin-si, South Korea), Youngugk Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Changsu Shin (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sunil Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Young-Min Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Eunji Kang (Yongin-si, South Korea), Doori Oh (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Yookyung Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative active material, including a silicon-carbon composite including silicon and amorp...