ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,389, issued on March 31, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) and Seoul National University R&DB Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Positive electrode coating material for lithium secondary battery, preparation method thereof, and positive electrode and lithium secondary battery comprising the coating material" was invented by Soohyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jong-Chan Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kihyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwonnam Sohn (Daejeon, South Korea) and Daun Jeong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a positive electrode coating material for a lithium secondary bat...