ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,059, issued on July 21, was assigned to CANON OPTRON INC. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Ion-conductive solid and all-solid-state battery" was invented by Saori Hashimoto (Tochigi, Japan), Yoshitaka Shiba (Tochigi, Japan), Noriko Sakamoto (Tochigi, Japan), Takeshi Kobayashi (Ibaraki, Japan), Toyoki Okumura (Osaka, Japan), Hironori Kobayashi (Osaka, Japan) and Tomonari Takeuchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: an ion-conductive solid which can be produced by heat treatment at a low temperature and which has high ion conductivity; and, an all-solid-state battery having the ion-conductive solid. An ion-conductive solid con...