ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,752, issued on June 2, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Lithium-ion battery including doped positive electrode active material" was invented by Cuiping Zhang (Ningde, China) and Changlong Han (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium-ion battery includes a positive electrode and an electrolyte. A positive electrode active material included in the positive electrode includes a doping element. The doping element includes at least one selected from W, Cu, Fe, V, Cr, Ti, Zr, Zn, Al, In, Ta, Y, La, Sr, Ga, Sc, Gd, Sm, Ca, Ce, Nb, Mg, B, and Mo, and a percentage of the doping eleme...