US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on March 17 for "Solid-state battery" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,225, issued on March 17, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Solid-state battery" was invented by Ryohei Takano (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state battery that includes a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, in which the positive electrode layer contains a positive electrode active material and an oxide having a garnet-type crystal structure, and a first Li concentration in an interface vicinity with the positive electrode active material in the oxide is lo...