ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,846, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"All solid state battery" was invented by Mitsutoshi Otaki (Susono, Japan) and Jun Yoshida (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a car having an all solid state battery with excellent capacity durability when restraining pressure is not applied or even when low restraining pressure is applied thereto. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an all solid state battery comprising layers in the order of a cathode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and an anode layer; wherein the anode l...