ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,201, issued on June 23, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Current collector, manufacturing method and equipment thereof, and current collector preform" was invented by Xiaoming Ge (Ningde, China), Yujie Chen (Ningde, China) and Feng Liu (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a current collector, and manufacturing method and equipment thereof, and a current collector preform, wherein the current collector may include a porous foam metal part and solid metal part(s); the porous foam metal part may be uncompressed, and the porous foam metal part may in...