ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,615, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Contemporary Amperex Technology (Hong Kong) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Electrode plate and electrochemical device" was invented by Jing Li (Ningde, China), Qingrui Xue (Ningde, China), Zige Zhang (Ningde, China), Wei Li (Ningde, China) and Xianwei Yang (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electrode plate according to the present application includes a current collector and an electrode active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the current collector, wherein the current collector includes a support layer and a conductive layer, the conductive layer has a single-sided thickne...