ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,217, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Outer package material for all-solid-state batteries, method for producing same and all-solid-state battery" was invented by Miho Sasaki (Tokyo) and Atsuko Takahagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outer package material for all-solid-state batteries, which is composed of a multilayer body that is sequentially provided, from the outer side, with at least a base material layer, a barrier layer and a thermally fusible resin layer in this order, and which is configured such that the multilayer body has a layer that has a buffering function on the outer ...