US Patent Issued to TeraWatt Technology on Sept. 2 for "Anode-free solid state battery having a pseudo-solid lithium gel layer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,997, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TeraWatt Technology Inc. (Tokyo).

"Anode-free solid state battery having a pseudo-solid lithium gel layer" was invented by Ken Ogata (Kanagawa, Japan), Yang Yang (Kanagawa, Japan), Hajime Hoshi (Kanagawa, Japan), Jungho Kim (Kanagawa, Japan), Masatsugu Nakano (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroshi Imoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-dendrite anode-free solid-state battery (SSB) can include a cathode layer; an anode current collector layer; and a lithium gel separator layer between the cathode layer and the anode current collector layer. An anti-dendrite layer may also be presen...