ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,030, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Solid electrolyte material and battery" was invented by Masashi Sakaida (Hyogo, Japan), Tetsuya Asano (Nara, Japan), Akihiro Sakai (Nara, Japan), Yusuke Nishio (Osaka, Japan), Akinobu Miyazaki (Osaka, Japan) and Shinya Hasegawa (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provide is a solid electrolyte material represented by a composition formula LiaYbMcX6-dFd, where M includes at least one kind selected from the group consisting of metalloid elements and metal elements other than Li and Y; X is at least one kind selected fro...