ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,799, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Secondary battery and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Kaori Ogita (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Kadoma (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoya Hirose (Kanagawa, Japan), Yumiko Yoneda (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuji Iwaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuyoshi Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary battery with excellent cycle performance is provided. The secondary battery is an all-solid-state battery including a positive electrode current collector layer, a base film, a positive electrode active ...