ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,089, issued on May 6, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Anode for all-solid-state battery comprising metal-thin-film coating layer and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Yong Gu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yun Sung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sa Heum Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hong Seok Min (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment anode for an all-solid-state battery includes an anode current collector, and a coating layer disposed on the anode current collector, wherein the coating layer is a thin film including at least one meta...