ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,198, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Negative electrode for lithium secondary battery, method of producing the same and lithium secondary battery including the same" was invented by Oh Byong Chae (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Wook Woo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Je Young Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, a method of producing the negative electrode, and a lithium secondary battery including the negative electrode. Specifically, the negative electrode can reduce the initial irreversibility of the negative elec...