ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,081, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Ningde Amperex Technology Ltd. (Ningde City, China) and Dongguan Amperex Technology Ltd. (Dongguan, China).

"Negative electrode plate and electrochemical apparatus and electronic apparatus including the negative electrode plate" was invented by Lele Lin (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode plate, including a current collector, a first active substance layer, and a second active substance layer located between the current collector and the first active substance layer, where the first active substance layer includes first silicon-based material particles, and the seco...