US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on April 21 for "Solid state battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,425, issued on April 21, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Solid state battery" was invented by Takeshi Maniwa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Kenji Oshima (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Osamu Chikagawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Naoki Maeda (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid state battery that includes: a battery element body; a first external electrode on a first end surface of the battery element body; a second external electrode on a second end surface of the battery element body; and a protective layer covering a peripheral surface of the battery element body that connects the first and second e...