US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 21 for "Large capacity solid state battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,360, issued on April 21, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Large capacity solid state battery" was invented by Akihiro Horibe (Yokohama, Japan), Kuniaki Sueoka (Sagamihara, Japan) and Takahito Watanabe (Yamato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique relating to a battery structure is disclosed. Abase substrate and a battery layer having a support substrate are prepared. The battery layer includes a protection layer formed on the support substrate, a film battery element formed on the protection layer and an insulator covering the film battery element. The battery layer is placed onto th...