ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,290, issued on March 18, was assigned to DONGGUAN AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Dongguan, China).

"Electrode assembly, and lithium ion electric roll using the electrode assembly" was invented by Junliang Zhu (Dongguan, China), Haibing Wang (Dongguan, China), Tongming Dong (Dongguan, China), Wenqiang Cheng (Dongguan, China), Baohua Chen (Dongguan, China), Shufeng Wu (Dongguan, China), Wei Yang (Dongguan, China), Zhihua Qin (Dongguan, China) and Meina Lin (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode assembly and a lithium ion electric roll having the same are provided. The electrode assembly includes: a first electrode unit...