ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,794, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Solid electrolyte material and battery using same" was invented by Kazufumi Miyatake (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Nishio (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Kubo (Hyogo, Japan), Tetsuya Asano (Nara, Japan) and Akihiro Sakai (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The solid electrolyte material of the present disclosure is a solid electrolyte material made of Li, Ca, Y, Gd, X, and O, where X is at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I; the molar ratio of O to the sum of Y and Gd in the entire solid electrolyte mate...