ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,323, issued on March 18, was assigned to BTR NEW MATERIAL GROUP Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Silicon oxide/carbon composite negative electrode material and preparation method therefor, and lithium-ion battery" was invented by Jingwei Wang (Guangdong, China), Chunlei Pang (Guangdong, China), Tengyu Liang (Guangdong, China), Jianguo Ren (Guangdong, China), Min Yue (Guangdong, China) and Xueqin He (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preparation method obtains silicon oxide/carbon composite negative electrode material and a lithium-ion battery. The silicon oxide/carbon composite negative electrode material is a secondary...