US Patent Issued to AGC on Oct. 20 for "Sulfide-based solid electrolyte used in lithium ion secondary battery, method for producing same, and lithium ion secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,914, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to AGC Inc. (Tokyo).

"Sulfide-based solid electrolyte used in lithium ion secondary battery, method for producing same, and lithium ion secondary battery" was invented by Naoki Fujii (Tokyo), Tetsushi Shobudani (Tokyo), Manabu Nishizawa (Tokyo), Hiroaki Tanaka (Tokyo) and Kosho Akatsuka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sulfide solid electrolyte to be used in a lithium-ion secondary battery, including: a crystal phase; and an anion existing in a crystal structure of the crystal phase, in which the crystal phase includes an argyrodite crystal containing Li, P, S, and Ha; Ha is at least one el...