ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,162, issued on July 14, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Secondary lithium battery anode and secondary lithium battery including same" was invented by Jungmin Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Ilkyong Kwon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Myungseop Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Yuhyun Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a secondary lithium battery anode and a secondary lithium battery including same, the secondary lithium battery anode comprising a current collector and an anode active material layer located on at least one surface of the current collector, wherein the anode...