ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,633, issued on May 5, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd. (Ningde, China).

"Lithium-ion battery and electric device" was invented by Kai Wu (Ningde, China), Hao Jiang (Ningde, China), Chenglong Yang (Ningde, China), Jingyu Gao (Ningde, China), Aosai Chen (Ningde, China), Haiming Zhang (Ningde, China), Honggang Yu (Ningde, China), Haizu Jin (Ningde, China) and Li Luo (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application disclose a lithium-ion battery and an electric device. The lithium-ion battery includes an electrolyte including a metal ion, where a reduction potential of the metal i...