ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,627, issued on April 7, was assigned to Wuxi Intelligent Equipment Co. Ltd. (Wuxi, China).

"Winding device" was invented by Liujie Zhao (Jiangsu, China) and Fengjie Wang (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A winding device including: a merging equipment, for merging a passing first diaphragm, a passing cathode pole piece, a passing second diaphragm and a passing anode pole piece to form a combined material strip; a first pole-piece-processing equipment, for cutting off the passing cathode pole piece, separating from each other a first upstream cut-off end and a first downstream cut-off end, and connecting them with a tape;...