ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,774, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SK On Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electrode for battery, and secondary battery including same" was invented by Chan Young Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea), Hee Gyoung Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), So Hyun Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hae Suk Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an electrode for a secondary battery that includes a current collector and an electrode active material layer that is formed on the current collector and contains an electrode active material, and satisfies Relational Expression 1, 7less than equal tototal surface are...