ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,218, issued on March 17, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd. (Ningde, China).

"Method and system for pairing bare cells" was invented by Mukai Yang (Ningde, China), Wensheng Pan (Ningde, China), Dengdeng Huang (Ningde, China), Qinkun Huang (Ningde, China), Zhiguo Zhang (Ningde, China) and Xiang Fan (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bare cells are loaded onto a loading zone of each of conveying apparatuses arranged side by side, at least two carrying sections being provided in the loading zone of each conveying apparatus. The bare cells are conveyed to corresponding pairing zones by two conveying appa...