ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,322, issued on March 18, was assigned to Tera Technos Co. Ltd. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Negative electrode material for secondary battery" was invented by Jae Woo Lee (Sejong-si, South Korea), Jin Gee Park (Daegu, South Korea), Sun Ho Choi (Sejong-si, South Korea), Jung Hoon Cheon (Sejong-si, South Korea), Sung Soo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sichen Du (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode material for a secondary battery includes a matrix containing silicon oxide, a composite oxide of one or more doping elements selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, and a post...