ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,872, issued on June 10, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"All-solid battery including line-shaped structural defect in solid electrolyte layer or current collector" was invented by Eiichi Koga (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery includes an electrode layer, a counter electrode layer facing the electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer located between the electrode layer and the counter electrode layer. The electrode layer includes an electrode current collector and an electrode active material layer located between the electrode current collector and the solid...