ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,680, issued on June 23, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Flow-coating apparatus and flow-coating method" was invented by Zunguang Yan (Ningde, China), Ye Xu (Ningde, China), Fenggui Zeng (Ningde, China), Jiajing Gao (Ningde, China) and Renyu Chen (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow-coating apparatus is configured to flow-coat a member to be flow-coated with an insulation layer, where the member to be flow-coated includes a first surface and an outer peripheral surface surrounding a periphery of the first surface, the first surface being perpendicular to a vertical directi...