ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,817, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Ningde Amperex Technology Ltd. (Ningde City, China).

"Electrochemical apparatus and electronic apparatus" was invented by Shuirong Zhang (Ningde, China), Lilan Zhang (Ningde, China), Xiao Yuan (Ningde, China) and Chao Tang (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical apparatus, including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte, where the electrolyte includes fluoroethylene carbonate and non-fluorinated cyclic carbonate, the fluoroethylene carbonate accounts for a % of the electrolyte by mass, and the non-fluorinated cyclic carbonate accounts for b % of...