ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,927, issued on May 27, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"All-solid-state battery" was invented by Teiichi Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An all-solid-state battery includes: a positive electrode collector layer; positive electrode active material layer; solid electrolyte layer; negative electrode active material layer; and a negative electrode collector layer, wherein the positive and negative electrode active material layer contains a positive and negative electrode active material respectively, and the negative electrode active material contains a compound represented by the following general Expression (I): Lia1Vb1...