ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,485, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Nickel-based active material, positive electrode including the same, and lithium secondary battery employing the positive electrode" was invented by Kiyong Ahn (Yongin-si, South Korea), Taehee Kwak (Yongin-si, South Korea), Minkyu Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Naoyuki Hase (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jeuk Ha (Yongin-si, South Korea), Seonyoung Kwon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yumi Song (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Eunok Oh (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nickel-based active material, a positive electrode including the same, ...