ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,861, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NINGDE AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Ningde, China).

"Battery cell with overlap between insulator and connector, battery, and electronic device" was invented by Hongwei Hu (Ningde, China), Xiulan Yuan (Ningde, China) and Jiao Tian (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery cell includes a battery cell body, at least two tabs, a first connector and at least two insulators. The first connector is configured to fasten a tail end of an electrode assembly to an outer surface of the battery cell body; the at least two tabs include a first tab and a second tab, and the at least two insulators ...