ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,488, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SK ON Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cathode for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same" was invented by Jong Hyeok Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Ji Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Yoon Ji Jo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Chang Mook Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cathode for a lithium secondary battery includes a cathode current collector, and a cathode active material layer including a plurality of active material layers sequentially disposed on the cathode current collector which include different types of cathode active materia...