ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,745, issued on April 8, was assigned to BTR NEW MATERIAL GROUP Co. LTD (Guangdong, China).

"Natural graphite, modified natural graphite material prepared therefrom, preparation method, and applications" was invented by Dongdong Li (Shenzhen, China), Haihui Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Chengkun Zhou (Shenzhen, China) and Xuan Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a natural graphite, a modified natural graphite material prepared therefrom, a preparation method, and applications. The natural graphite has the following characteristics: a particle size D50 smaller than 10 micro metre, and D90/D10greater than2.5; a 002...