ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,270, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ningde Amperex Technology Ltd. (Ningde, China).

"Electrolyte and electrochemical apparatus including such electrolyte" was invented by Shaoyun Zhou (Fujian, China) and Chao Tang (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrolyte including lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide and lithium hexafluorophosphate, where based on a total weight of the electrolyte, a weight percentage of lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide is a %, and a weight percentage of lithium hexafluorophosphate is b %, where 12greater thana+bgreater than20 and 0.2greater thana/bgreater than1.5. An electrochemical apparatus usi...