ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,268, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Lithium solid electrolyte and method of manufacture thereof" was invented by Yuntong Zhu (Cambridge, Mass.), Won Seok Chang (Seoul, South Korea), Jennifer Rupp (Cambridge, Mass.) and Lincoln Miara (Lincoln, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a lithium solid electrolyte, the method including: providing a composition including a lithium precursor, a lanthanum precursor, and a zirconium precursor; disposing the composition on a substrate having a temp...