ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,751, issued on June 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"All solid state battery" was invented by Ximeng Li (Susono, Japan), Masumi Sato (Toyota, Japan), Sakina Kaneko (Susono, Japan), Tomoya Matsunaga (Susono, Japan), So Yubuchi (Susono, Japan), Mitsutoshi Otaki (Susono, Japan), Hideaki Nishimura (Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Satoshi Wakasugi (Susono, Japan), Shohei Kawashima (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 an all solid state battery in which occurrence of short circuit is inhibited. The present disclosure achie...