ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,466, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Battery" was invented by Yoshiaki Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan), Tetsuya Asano (Nara, Japan) and Akihiro Sakai (Nara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The battery includes a positive electrode, a first electrolyte layer, a second electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode arranged in this order. The first electrolyte layer contains a first solid electrolyte material and a second solid electrolyte material. In the first electrolyte layer, the mass ratio of the second solid electrolyte material to the first solid electrolyte materi...