ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,303, issued on April 21, was assigned to SK On Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) and UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) (Ulsan, South Korea).

"Anode active material for lithium secondary battery and method of preparing the same" was invented by Gwi Ok Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Joon Sup Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Eun Jun Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Jee Hee Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jae Phil Cho (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an anode active material for a lithium secondary battery and a method of preparing the same, wherein the anode active material for a lithium secondar...