US Patent Issued to MITSUI MINING & SMELTING on June 17 for "Solid electrolyte, and electrode mixture, solid electrolyte layer and solid-state battery, each using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,497, issued on June 17, was assigned to MITSUI MINING & SMELTING Co. LTD. (Japan).

"Solid electrolyte, and electrode mixture, solid electrolyte layer and solid-state battery, each using same" was invented by Yuji Hoshi (Ageo, Japan), Hideaki Matsushima (Ageo, Japan) and Teruaki Yagi (Ageo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid electrolyte contains a compound that has a crystal phase having an argyrodite-type crystal structure and that is represented by LiaPSbXc, where X is at least one elemental halogen, a represents a number of 3.0 or more and 6.0 or less, b represents a number of 3.5 or more and 4.8 or less, and c represents...