ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,080, issued on June 30, was assigned to Tsinghua University (Beijing) and HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Lithium-ion battery anode" was invented by Zi-Xin Hong (Beijing), Zhen-Han Fang (Beijing), Jia-Ping Wang (Beijing) and Shou-Shan Fan (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium-ion battery anode is provided. The lithium-ion battery anode comprises a carbon nanotube three-dimensional network structure formed by a plurality of carbon nanotubes intertwined with each other. A plurality of nano-silicon particles coated with amorphous carbon, dispersed in the carbon nanotube three-dimensional network st...