ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,047, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Electrolyte, secondary battery, battery module, battery pack, and power consuming device" was invented by Jie Guo (Ningde, China), Changlong Han (Ningde, China), Bin Jiang (Ningde, China) and Zeli Wu (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrolyte for a secondary battery includes a solvent, a lithium salt, and a film-forming additive. A content of the film-forming additive is 0.1%-10% by mass of a total mass of the electrolyte, and the content of the film-forming additive satisfies: 0.1 * 10 - 2 less than equal to A *...