ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,780, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Negative electrode and secondary battery including the same" was invented by Hyun-Min Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Min-Kyung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jong-Heon Seol (Daejeon, South Korea), Ki-Won Sung (Daejeon, South Korea), Myung-Ki Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Eun-Ju Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Young-Eun Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode including: a current collector; a first negative electrode active material layer positioned on at least one surface of the current collector for a negative electro...