ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,511, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SCHOTT AG (Mainz, Germany).

"Method for producing a conductive composite material for a battery, and conductive composite material" was invented by Joerg Schuhmacher (Kornwestheim, Germany), Philipp Treis (Bingen am Rhein, Germany), Meike Schneider (Taunusstein, Germany), Andreas Roters (Mainz, Germany), Rolf Samsinger (Russelsheim am Main, Germany), Sven Schopf (Braunschweig, Germany) and Arno Kwade (Wendeburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a conductive composite material for a battery such as a solid-state battery includes providing an ion-conducting electrolyt...