ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,776, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Negative electrode for lithium secondary batteries including current collector coated with primer and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Jung Pil Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Woong Yun (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sun Woo Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a negative electrode for lithium secondary batteries, the negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector, a primer layer applied to the outer surface of the negative electrode current collector, and a lithiophilic material...