US Patent Issued to Samsung SDI on March 17 for "Negative active material composite for rechargeable lithium battery, method of preparing the same, and negative electrode and rechargeable lithium battery including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,186, issued on March 17, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Negative active material composite for rechargeable lithium battery, method of preparing the same, and negative electrode and rechargeable lithium battery including the same" was invented by Changsu Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young-Min Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soonho Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaehou Nah (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaemyung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative active material composite includes a core and a coating layer around (surrounding) the core. The core includes amorphous carbon an...