ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,865, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Contemporary Amperex Technology (Hong Kong) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Method and apparatus for detecting tab" was invented by Qiuhui Zheng (Ningde, China), Jun Hu (Ningde, China), Dajun Ni (Ningde, China), Shiping Feng (Ningde, China), Wen Chang (Ningde, China), Canbin Chen (Ningde, China), Qing Wu (Ningde, China), Haoran Lu (Ningde, China), Yang Lei (Ningde, China), Baiquan Zhao (Ningde, China) and Pengfei Duan (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for detecting a tab. The method includes: determining that a first tab of a first electrode plate in a plu...