ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,424, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to APh ePower Co. Ltd. (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

"Current collector protective glue" was invented by Jui-Hsuan Wu (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Shih Po Ta Tsai (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Wei Chen Huang (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Chih-Yu Yang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current collector protective glue includes a solvent and an adhesive. The solvent is selected from one or more of water, ethanol, NMP, acetone, and butanone. The adhesive is selected from one or more of cellulose, polyacrylic acid, styrene-butadiene rubber, styrene butadiene rubber, and nitrile rubber."

The pat...