ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,758, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NINGDE AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Ningde, China).

"Negative electrode plate, electrochemical apparatus, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Zhihuan Chen (Ningde, China), Daoyi Jiang (Ningde, China), Ting Yi (Ningde, China) and Hang Cui (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode plate includes a current collector and an active substance layer provided on the current collector, where the active substance layer includes a silicon-based material, and a proportion by mass of element silicon in the active substance layer has a minimum value X1 and a maximum value X2 among ...