ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,517, issued on May 19, was assigned to Ningde Amperex Technology Ltd. (Ningde, China).

"Electrochemical device and electronic device" was invented by Maohua Chen (Ningde, China), Daguang Li (Ningde, China), Xiaoping Lin (Ningde, China) and Yuansen Xie (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical device includes a negative electrode. The negative electrode includes a current collector layer, a lithium metal layer, and a porous framework layer that are arranged in sequence. The porous framework layer is partly intercalated in the lithium metal layer. A thickness by which the porous framework layer is intercalated in ...