ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,383, issued on May 20, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Solid electrolyte material and battery using same" was invented by Yusuke Nishio (Osaka, Japan), Kazufumi Miyatake (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: "A solid-electrolyte material includes Li, Y, O, and X. X is at least two elements selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I. O is present in a surface region of the solid-electrolyte material."
The patent was filed on Dec. 13, 2021, under Application No. 17/548,682.
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