ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,340, issued on April 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"All-solid-state battery and method of producing all-solid-state battery" was invented by Akihiro Yoshizawa (Wako, Japan) and Ushio Harada (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An all-solid-state battery (1) includes a positive electrode (20) in which a first current collector layer (21) and a first active material layer (22) containing at least a solid electrolyte are laminated, a negative electrode (30) in which a second current collector layer (31) and a second active material layer (32) containing at least a solid electrolyte are laminated, and a first so...