ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,118, issued on June 30, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Battery assembly and processing method and apparatus therefor, battery cell, battery, and power consuming device" was invented by Jun Ni (Ningde City, China), Fenggang Zhao (Ningde City, China), Shengwu Zhang (Ningde City, China), Minghao Tang (Ningde City, China), Wenfa Lin (Ningde City, China) and Jie Ye (Ningde City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode assembly and a processing method and apparatus therefor, a battery cell, a battery, and a power consuming device are provided. The processing method includes: applyin...