ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,941, issued on March 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method of evaluating power storage device, method of manufacturing power storage device, and test system" was invented by Kensaku Miyazawa (Toyota, Japan), Shinichi Hamasaki (Nagakute, Japan), Yuya Ishihara (Miyoshi, Japan) and Tetsuya Kaneko (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of evaluating an all-solid-state battery includes preparing the all-solid-state battery. A charge level of the all-solid-state battery is adjusted to produce a first potential difference between a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The positive electrode ...