ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,160, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"All-solid-state battery and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Ryuto Sakamoto (Okazaki, Japan) and Kazuhiro Suzuki (Hadano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An all-solid-state battery includes two or more stacked battery units stacked together and having a monopolar structure. The stacked battery unit includes a first current collector layer, a first active substance layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a second active substance layer, a second current collector layer, a second active substance layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a first acti...