ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,286, issued on March 25, was assigned to SK ON Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Negative electrode for secondary 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: "Provided is a negative electrode for a secondary battery including: a current collector, and a negative electrode active material layer formed on the current collector and containing a first negative electrode active material having a large particle size and a second negative e...