ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,276, issued on April 14, was assigned to MITSUI KINZOKU COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Active material, and positive electrode mixture and solid-state battery that use said active material" was invented by Daisuke Washida (Ageo, Japan), Hitohiko Ide (Ageo, Japan), Tetsuya Mitsumoto (Takehara, Japan), Jun Omura (Ageo, Japan), Yasuo Komoda (Ageo, Japan), Yasuhiro Shibata (Ageo, Japan), Yasunori Tabira (Ageo, Japan) and Tomoyuki Maeda (Ageo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an active material that can reduce an interface resistance with a sulfide solid electrolyte and improve the battery performance. The active material exhibi...