ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,979, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"All-solid battery and method of preparing the same" was invented by Wonseok Chang (Seoul, South Korea), Jusik Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Gabin Yoon (Seoul, South Korea) and Myungjin Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The all-solid battery includes: a cathode layer including a cathode active material layer, an anode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer that is disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer and includes a solid electrolyte, wherein the anode layer includes a porous anode current collector; ...