ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,152, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Positive active material precursor for rechargeable lithium battery, positive active material for rechargeable lithium battery, method of preparing the positive active material, and rechargeable lithium battery including the positive active material" was invented by Do-Yu Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment provides a positive active material precursor for a rechargeable lithium battery including: a nickel-based composite precursor including a secondary particle comprising a plurality of primary particles that ar...