US Patent Issued to SK On on July 28 for "Cathode active material for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,088, issued on July 28, was assigned to SK On Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cathode active material for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same" was invented by Jik Soo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Mi Jung Noh (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jae Ho Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a lithium-nickel composite metal oxide in which an oxidation number of nickel is 2.8 or more. The lithium-nickel composite metal oxide includes a first doping element having an oxidati...