ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,710, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Additive for electrolyte of secondary lithium battery, electrolyte for secondary lithium battery, and secondary lithium battery comprising same" was invented by Olga Tsay (Yongin-si, South Korea), Soojin Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyunbong Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea), Younghye Kang (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jin-Hyeok Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Myunghwan Jeong (Yongin-si, South Korea), Wonseok Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Pavel Shatunov (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an additive for the electrolyte...