ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,911, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Modified sulfide solid electrolyte and method for producing same" was invented by Tomoyuki Okuyama (Utsunomiya, Japan), Nobuhito Nakaya (Ichihara, Japan), Hiroto Ida (Narashino, Japan), Toshifumi Miyagawa (Chiba, Japan) and Atsushi Yao (Sodegaura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: a modified sulfide solid electrode containing a sulfide solid electrolyte having a BET specific surface area of 10 m2/g or more and containing a lithium atom, a sulfur atom, a phosphorus atom, and a halogen atom, and an epoxy compound, in which the modified sulfide so...