US Patent Issued to Ningde Amperex Technology on June 17 for "Electrolyte and electrochemical device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,494, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ningde Amperex Technology Ltd. (Ningde, China).

"Electrolyte and electrochemical device" was invented by Lilan Zhang (Ningde, China), Chao Tang (Ningde, China) and Jianming Zheng (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical device, including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator and an electrolyte. The electrolyte includes a nitrile compound, and the mass percentage of the nitrile compound in the electrolyte is A %; the negative electrode includes a current collector, wherein the current collector includes a first region and a second region; the first regio...