ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,385, issued on July 7, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd. (Ningde, China).

"Battery cell, battery, electric apparatus, and energy storage apparatus" was invented by Haizu Jin (Ningde, China), Heyang Liu (Ningde, China), Jiang Liu (Ningde, China), Limei Yang (Ningde, Fiji) and Rui Yang (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery cell, a battery, an electric apparatus, and an energy storage apparatus are provided. The battery cell includes a housing and at least one electrode assembly disposed within the housing. The housing is shaped as a right parallelepiped and defined by three mutually perpendicular...