ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,610, issued on April 7, was assigned to NINGDE AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Ningde City, China).

"Negative electrode active material, and electrochemical apparatus and electronic apparatus using the same" was invented by Wenbo Jin (Ningde, China), Jiali Dong (Ningde, China), Lihong He (Ningde, China) and Yuansen Xie (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode active material includes a carbon material, where the carbon material has a specific degree of graphitization and aspect ratio distribution. A degree of graphitization Gr of the carbon material measured by an X-ray diffraction analysis method is 0.82 to 0.92, ...