ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,477, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Anode for all solid-state secondary battery, all solid-state secondary battery including the anode, and method of manufacturing the anode" was invented by Satoshi Fujiki (Yokohama, Japan), Seitaro Ito (Yokohama, Japan), Taku Watanabe (Yokohama, Japan), Yuichi Aihara (Yokohama, Japan) and Takanobu Yamada (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anode for an all solid-state secondary battery, the anode including an anode collector, and coating lithium distribution layer disposed on the anode collector, wherein the lithium distribut...