ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,925, issued on May 12, was assigned to Contemporary Amperex Technology (Hong Kong) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Carbon material comprising particles with pore structures, method for preparing the same, and secondary battery and electrical device comprising the same" was invented by Yonghong Chen (Ningde, China), Rui Shen (Ningde, China) and Libing He (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbon material includes an external region and an internal region disposed on the inside of the external region, the external region being a region formed by extending for a distance of 0.25 L from the surface of the particles of the carbon material ...