ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,826, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SHENZHEN CAPCHEM TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Metal electrode and battery" was invented by Zhongbo Liu (Guangdong, China), Xiaohu Ao (Guangdong, China), Yonghong Deng (Guangdong, China), Yuanyuan Kang (Guangdong, China) and Yunxian Qian (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to overcome the problem of metal dendrites caused by uneven deposition on the surface of the existing metal electrode, the present application provides a metal electrode, comprising a metal layer and a coating, the coating comprises at least one block copolymer; the block copolymer comprises a ...