ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,769, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Solid-state battery" was invented by Fuminori Mizuno (Miyoshi, Japan), Shinya Shiotani (Nagoya, Japan) and Takamasa Ohtomo (Miyoshi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state battery includes: a first current collector layer having a first current collector tab protruding from one side of a quadrilateral; a first active material layer laminated on the first current collector layer; a second current collector layer having a second current collector tab protruding from one side of a quadrilateral; a second active material layer laminated on the secon...