ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,916, issued on Oct. 20, 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) and Takeshi Kobayashi (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion conductive solid includes an oxide represented by the general formula Li6-x-y-zY1-x-y-zHfxZryCezB3O9, and the solid-state battery has at least a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte, and at least one element of the group consisting of the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the electr...