ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,599, issued on May 19, was assigned to Ningde Amperex Technology Ltd. (Ningde, China).
"Battery" was invented by Dongge Hu (Ningde, China), Weifeng Han (Ningde, China), Bin Liu (Ningde, China) and Tao Wang (Ningde, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery including a curved metal shell, a curved metal plate, and a curved electrode assembly. The curved metal shell has a curved surface and a plurality of side walls extending from the curved surface. The curved electrode assembly is disposed between the curved metal shell and the curved metal plate. The plurality of side walls are bound with the curved metal plate to seal the curve...