ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,420, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hainan University (Haikou, China), China Huadian Co. Ltd. (Beijing), Hainan Lvran clean energy Co. Ltd. (Haikou, China) and Huadian Water Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Aluminum-air composite battery and preparation method" was invented by Xuerong Zheng (Haikou, China), Yida Deng (Haikou, China), Wenjie Huang (Haikou, China), Yang Wang (Haikou, China), Beiyang Chen (Beijing), Haozhi Wang (Haikou, China), Caiyun Zhao (Haikou, China), Feng Liu (Beijing) and Rui Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses an aluminum-air composite battery and a preparation method, wh...