ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,296, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SHANGHAI ENERGY NEW MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Outer packaging material for battery apparatus, and battery" was invented by Alex Cheng (Shanghai), Bin Chen (Shanghai), Xiaoming Wang (Shanghai), Hui Wang (Shanghai) and Shaobo Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outer packaging material for a battery apparatus, the material comprising a base layer (1), a bonding layer (2), a barrier layer (5), another bonding layer (7), and a hot-melt adhesive layer (8); the bonding layer (2) is disposed between the base layer (1) and the barrier layer (5); the other bonding layer (7) i...