ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,796, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Additive, electrolyte for lithium secondary battery comprising same, and lithium secondary battery" was invented by Jin-Hyeok Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Younghye Kang (Yongin-si, South Korea), Dongyoung Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Soojin Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Aeran Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Suyeol Ryu (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jeongmin Shin (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kyu-Eun Shim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Junyong Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Tae Jin Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Myunghwan Jeong (Yongin-si, South Korea), Wonseok Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea), Olga Tsay (Yongin-si...