ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,377, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Composite negative electrode active material, method of preparing the same, negative electrode and secondary battery comprising the same" was invented by Il Geun Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Yong Ju Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Je Young Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Woo Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea), Ye Lin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Tae Gon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a composite negative electrode active material comprising silicon-based core particles, an outer carbon coating layer present on the silico...