ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,308, issued on July 7, was assigned to GS Yuasa International Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Active material particle, electrode, energy storage device, all-solid-state secondary battery, method for producing active material particles, and energy storage apparatus" was invented by Daisuke Yoshikawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Motoshi Suyama (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active material particle according to an aspect of the present invention includes an active material base material and a covering layer covering at least a part of a surface of the active material base material, in which the covering layer contains niobium atoms and ph...