ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,596, issued on April 7, was assigned to CHINA NONFERROUS METAL (GUILIN) GEOLOGY AND MINING Co. LTD. (Guilin, China).

"Nano-silicon-graphite composite negative electrode material with carbon coating and aluminum metaphosphate composite modification layer on surface and preparation method thereof" was invented by Wenping Liu (Guilin, China), Haiqing Qin (Guilin, China), Xiaoxu Lei (Guilin, China), Anjun Lu (Guilin, China), Zhenjun Zhang (Guilin, China), Zuxue Mo (Guilin, China), Huijie Tang (Guilin, China) and Guanghai Meng (Guilin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nano-silicon-graphite composite negative electrode material with ...