ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,287, issued on April 14, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electrode active material for secondary battery and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Joon Koo Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Il Ha Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ki Hwan Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides an electrode active material having excellent electrical conductivity and ionic conductivity as well as excellent mechanical flexibility by forming a unique conductive polymer layer on an active material core, while preventing side reactions between the active material core and an...