ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,845, issued on July 22, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Material management method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Xiaoyong Wu (Ningde, China), Lei Song (Ningde, China), Guangcheng Zhong (Ningde, China), Yiyang Gong (Ningde, China) and Hongtao Li (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material management method applied to a battery production line includes controlling, after a plurality of battery cells placed on a plurality of stations reach designated code scanning positions, a plurality of blocking devices to work in a first working state a...