ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,204, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BTR NEW MATERIAL GROUP Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Negative electrode material and preparation method therefor, and lithium-ion battery" was invented by Haihui Zhou (Guangdong, China), Junhui Lai (Guangdong, China), Tao Xu (Guangdong, China), Jianguo Ren (Guangdong, China) and Xueqin He (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a negative electrode material, a preparation method thereof, and a lithium ion battery. The negative electrode material comprises a first graphite core and a composite coating layer coated on the first graphite core. The composite ...