ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,821, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"All-solid-state battery" was invented by Ximeng Li (Susono, Japan) and Masafumi Nose (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an all-solid-state battery that utilizes a precipitation-dissolution reaction of metallic lithium as a reaction of a negative electrode. The all-solid-state battery has a negative electrode current collector, a Li storage layer containing a fibrous carbon material and a resin, a metal M layer capable of being alloyed with lithium, a solid electrolyte layer, and a positive electrode layer in this order."
The patent w...