ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,791, issued on March 24, was assigned to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) (Seoul, South Korea).

"Fluorine-containing positive electrode active material for lithium secondary battery, and lithium secondary battery including same" was invented by Yang-Kook Sun (Seoul, South Korea) and Un-Hyuck Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery, the positive electrode active material having a layered structure and containing lithium, transition metals, fluorine (F), and oxygen, wherein the l...