ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,718, issued on June 2, was assigned to SK On Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Negative electrode active material and secondary battery including the same" was invented by Hae Suk Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jong Hyuk Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hee Gyoung Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), So Hyun Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Chan Young Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a negative electrode active material for a secondary battery including an active material in a bimodal form including small particles and large particles, in which the small particles are primary particles, and the large particles are ...