ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,402, issued on April 15, was assigned to Jiangsu Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. (Jiangsu, China).

"Top cover assembly including fixing element for fixing sealing element to mounting part and battery including the same" was invented by Xinxiang Chen (Jiangsu, China), Shoujun Huang (Jiangsu, China), Peng Wang (Jiangsu, China), Yulian Zheng (Jiangsu, China) and Huasheng Su (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a top cover assembly for a battery, a battery and a device using a battery as a power source. The top cover assembly includes: a cover plate body having a liquid injection hole; a moun...