ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,557, issued on June 17, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Negative-electrode active material and preparation method thereof, secondary battery, and battery module, battery pack, and apparatus containing such secondary battery" was invented by Yuqun Zeng (Ningde, China), Baida Deng (Ningde, China), Meng Kang (Ningde, China), Erling Li (Ningde, China) and Libing He (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a negative-electrode active material and a preparation method thereof, a secondary battery, and a battery module, a battery pack, and an apparatus that inclu...