ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,069, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"All-solid battery module and electronic apparatus" was invented by Motoki Katayama (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an all-solid-state battery module including: an all-solid-state battery with a voltage in excess of 0 V; a switching element connected in series with the all-solid-state battery; a control unit that controls on/off of the switching element; and a trigger input path connected to the control unit, where a trigger that causes the switching element to transition to an on state is input via the trigger input path."...