ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,392, issued on July 15, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Battery cell, battery, and electric apparatus" was invented by Zeli Wu (Ningde, China), Changlong Han (Ningde, China), Cuiping Zhang (Ningde, China), Lei Huang (Ningde, China), Jie Guo (Ningde, China), Shuting Peng (Ningde, China) and Qiao Wu (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery cell includes an electrolyte, positive and negative electrode plates, and a separator provided between the positive and negative electrode plates. The electrolyte includes a lithium salt including lithium hexafluorophosphate, a mass percen...