ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,022, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to LINKDATA NEW ENERGY Co. LTD. (Wuxi, China).

"Multi-tab cylindrical battery roll core and lithium ion battery" was invented by Sitao Yang (Wuxi, China) and Xiaoyun Zhang (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a multi-tab cylindrical battery roll core, including an electrode sheet and a separating film stacked and wound with each other; a tabs and a lead are arranged at the electrode sheet, the tabs is integrally connected with the electrode sheet, and the lead is fixedly connected to the electrode sheet; the tabs and the lead of the same electrode sheet are...