ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,373, issued on May 26, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Negative electrode current collector for lithium metal battery, manufacturing method thereof, and lithium metal battery comprising the same" was invented by Kyoung Ho Ahn (Daejeon, South Korea), Byoung Woo Kang (Pohang-si, South Korea), Solji Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Chul Haeng Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Wontae Lee (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Yongho Shin (Pohang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode current collector for a lithium metal battery. The negative electrode current collector includes a metal current coll...