US Patent Issued to LG ENERGY SOLUTION on April 14 for "Apparatus for pre-lithiation of negative electrode and method for pre-lithiation of negative electrode" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,271, issued on April 14, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for pre-lithiation of negative electrode and method for pre-lithiation of negative electrode" was invented by Seo Young Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea), Ye Ri Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Oh Byong Chae (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seung Hae Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for pre-lithiating a negative electrode includes a pre-lithiation reactor sequentially divided into an impregnation section, a pre-lithiation section and an aging section, and accommodates a pre-lithiation solution in which a negative e...