ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,757, issued on June 2, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Flow test tool, negative pressure formation apparatus, and battery manufacturing device" was invented by Shaosheng Cheng (Ningde, China), Wen Yu (Ningde, China), Jiefei Gong (Ningde, China), Fengyu Guo (Ningde, China), Yanqing Chen (Ningde, China), Wei Wang (Ningde, China), Weidong Song (Ningde, China), Shaohui Zhang (Ningde, China) and Gege Chen (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a flow test tool, a negative pressure formation apparatus, and a battery manufacturing device. The flow test too...