ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,221, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ningde Amperex Technology Ltd. (Ningde, China).
"Cell, battery, and electric apparatus" was invented by Dongyang Yan (Ningde, China), Mingyue Yuanyin (Ningde, China) and Yuyang Dong (Ningde, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell, including an electrode assembly and a shell. The electrode assembly includes tabs, and the electrode assembly is disposed in the shell. The shell includes a packaging part and a sealing part connected to the packaging part, where the sealing part is formed by extending the packaging part outward, the electrode assembly is located in the packaging part, and the ta...