ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,151, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Contemporary Amperex Technology (Hong Kong) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Positive electrode active material and its preparation method, sodium ion battery and apparatus containing the sodium ion battery" was invented by Qian Liu (Ningde, China), Yongsheng Guo (Ningde, China), Chengdu Liang (ningde, China) and Wenguang Lin (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a positive electrode active material and its preparation method, a sodium ion battery and an apparatus containing the sodium ion battery. The positive electrode active material satisfies a chemical formula Na2...