ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,264, issued on March 25, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electrolyte membrane for all-solid-state battery and all-solid-state battery including the same" was invented by Jung-Pil Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sung-Joong Kang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The solid electrolyte membrane according to the present disclosure forms an ion conduction-interrupting layer therein by polymer phase separation under a high temperature condition, such as an increase in internal temperature of a battery, and thus interrupts lithium ion transport. Therefore, it is possible to prevent thermal ru...