ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,182, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for producing halide" was invented by Takashi Kubo (Hyogo, Japan), Kazufumi Miyatake (Osaka, Japan), Keita Mizuno (Aichi, Japan), Tetsuya Asano (Nara, Japan) and Akihiro Sakai (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production method for producing a halide, the method includes a heat treatment step of heat-treating a mixed material containing (NH4)aYAlpha3+a, (NH4)bSmBeta3+b, LiGamma, and CaDelta2 in an inert gas atmosphere, wherein Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta are each independently at least one selected from th...