ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,918, issued on May 13, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Bidirectional pressure relief valve, battery and electric device" was invented by Fan Zhang (Ningde, China), Lei Chen (Ningde, China), Heyuan Li (Ningde, China) and Langchao Hu (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in the embodiments of the application are a bidirectional pressure relief valve, a battery and an electric device. The bidirectional pressure relief valve includes a valve seat, a first valve element and a second valve element, where the valve seat has a first end and a second end opposite each other, a ch...