ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,043, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SVolt Energy Technology Co. Ltd. (Changzhou, China).

"Negative electrode, preparation method therefor, and application thereof" was invented by Yang Dou (Changzhou, China), Shuaibin Lou (Changzhou, China) and Jing Liu (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a negative electrode, a preparation method therefor, and an application thereof. In the process of preparing a negative electrode of the present disclosure, a graphite material is mixed with a graphene-coated silicon-oxygen material, and the graphene-coated silicon-oxygen material is prepared by means...