ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,836, issued on June 10, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
"All-solid-state battery" was invented by Ryohei Takano (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Makoto Yoshioka (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Akisuke Ito (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An all-solid-state battery having a positive electrode, a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material layer, and a solid electrolyte layer between the positive electrode and the negative electrode material layer. The negative electrode active material layer contains 60% by volume or more of an oxide having a LISICON-type crystal structure. The solid ...