ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,342, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Cell, power battery pack, and electric vehicle" was invented by Long He (Shenzhen, China), Huajun Sun (Shenzhen, China), Wenfeng Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Zhipei Lu (Shenzhen, China), Weixin Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Jianglong Tang (Shenzhen, China), Yan Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Xinyue Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Kefeng He (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell, a power battery pack, and an electric vehicle are provided. The cell includes a cell body, and the cell body has a length L, a width H and a thickness D. The length L of the cell body is great...