US Patent Issued to The Industry & Academic Cooperation in Chungnam National University (IAC) on June 30 for "Cathode active material for lithium secondary battery, and lithium secondary battery including same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,086, issued on June 30, was assigned to The Industry & Academic Cooperation in Chungnam National University (IAC) (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Cathode active material for lithium secondary battery, and lithium secondary battery including same" was invented by Chun Joong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hyung Kwon Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are a lithium secondary battery cathode active material doped with B and Sn and a lithium secondary battery including the cathode active material. The B and Sn doping enables a cathode capable of solving problems occurring in a high-nickel cathode, such as (1) an e...