ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,361, issued on April 15, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Negative electrode plate, secondary battery, battery module, battery pack, and electrical device" was invented by Qifan Wu (Ningde, China) and Ming Zhang (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode plate includes: a negative electrode current collector, and a negative electrode film layer located on at least one surface of the negative electrode current collector and including first and second negative electrode active material particles. The first negative electrode active material particles includes adsorpti...