ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,151, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to BTR NEW MATERIAL GROUP Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Anode material and battery" was invented by Meng Zhang (Guangdong, China), Mengyang Zu (Guangdong, China), Zikun Li (Guangdong, China), Jian Huang (Guangdong, China) and Jianguo Ren (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an anode material and a battery, the anode material comprises graphite, an interior and/or a surface of the graphite has pores, a pore volume of the anode material is V (cm3/kg), a specific surface area is S (m2/g), a tap density is T (g/cc), wherein, 2less than equal toV*S/Tless th...