US Patent Issued to SK ON, SK INNOVATION on May 26 for "Ionic liquid, electrolyte for secondary battery including ionic liquid, and secondary battery including electrolyte" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,397, issued on May 26, was assigned to SK ON Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea) and SK INNOVATION Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Ionic liquid, electrolyte for secondary battery including ionic liquid, and secondary battery including electrolyte" was invented by Jin Hong Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hong Won Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), In Haeng Cho (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sung Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an ionic liquid including a cationic compound represented by Formula (1), where R represents an N-containing heterocyclic cation, and an anionic compound, an electrolyte including the ionic li...