ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,750, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electrodes with active material particles having mixed ionic and electronic conducting layers thereon" was invented by Venkataramani Anandan (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Chanyeop Yu (Columbus, Ohio) and Jung-Hyung Kim (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state battery includes an anode, a cathode, and a solid electrolyte between the anode and cathode. The anode or cathode includes bonded active material particles having thereon a mixed ionic and electronic conducting conformal interface layer that provides a transport path for ion...