ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,378, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Contemporary Amperex Technology (Hong Kong) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Charging method and charging apparatus" was invented by Zhimin Zheng (Fujian, China), Yong Cheng (Fujian, China) and Jinmei Xu (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a charging method and a charging apparatus, which can effectively improve the charging speed of a battery apparatus at a relatively low cost. The charging method is applied to a charging apparatus, where the charging apparatus includes an energy storage apparatus, and the charging apparatus is configured to charge a batter...