ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,285, issued on March 17, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Secondary battery" was invented by Min Hyung Guen (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Hyun Young Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present invention provides a secondary battery wherein, by positively charging a case by a high-resistance positive electrode charging member, an alloy (for example, a lithium aluminum (LiAl) alloy) is not formed on the inner surface of the case by an electrolyte (that is, the case is not corroded), and when a negative electrode terminal is short-circuited to a positive electrod...