ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,341, issued on March 18, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"End cap assembly, battery cell, battery, battery cell manufacturing equipment and method" was invented by Yanyu Liu (Ningde, China), Shoujun Huang (Ningde, China), Xinxiang Chen (Ningde, China), Yulian Zheng (Ningde, China) and Peng Wang (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end cap assembly, a battery cell, a battery, battery cell manufacturing equipment and method are provided, which belong to the technical field of batteries. The end cap assembly includes an end cap, an electrode terminal and a connector. The end cap...