ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,083, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to POSCO Holdings Inc. (Seoul, South Korea), RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (Pohang-si, South Korea) and POSCO CHEMICAL Co. LTD (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Positive active material for rechargeable lithium battery, and rechargeable lithium battery including same" was invented by Ohmin Kwon (Incheon, South Korea), Sang Cheol Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Kwon Young Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Hoon Song (Gwacheon-si, South Korea), Sanghyuk Lee (Incheon, South Korea) and Inchul Park (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It relates to a positive electrode active mate...