ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,183, issued on June 23, was assigned to CANON OPTRON INC. (Ibaraki, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion conductive solid that can be produced by heat treatment at low temperature and has a high ion conductivity; and an all-solid-state battery comprising the ion conductive solid, and the ion conductive solid comprising an oxide represented by Formula Li6-x-y-zY1-y-zCxZryCezB3-xO9, in formula, x is a real number satisfying ...