ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,200, issued on June 23, was assigned to JIANGSU ADVANCED MATERIAL TECH Co. LTD. (Liyang, China).

"Electrode plate, manufacturing method, rechargeable battery and production device" was invented by Lei Zhang (Liyang, China), Xiaoming Wang (Liyang, China), Qiang Xu (Liyang, China), Haotian Yang (Liyang, China), Jinku Xie (Liyang, China), Fengjie Wei (Liyang, China) and Yukun Zhou (Liyang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode plate includes a current collector which includes an insulating layer, a first conductor layer and a second conductor layer disposed on two sides of the insulating layer respectively, and a conductive ...