ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,228, issued on July 21, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Method for supplementing lithium for secondary battery and method for charging and discharging secondary battery" was invented by Jianghui Lin (Ningde, China), Yanjie Zhao (Ningde, China), Xing Li (Ningde, China) and Haizu Jin (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for supplementing lithium for a secondary battery includes performing a first round of lithium-supplementing charge and discharge on the secondary battery during routine charge-and-discharge cycles of the secondary battery if a capacity of the secondary ba...