ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,156, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NIPPON KODOSHI Corp. (Kochi, Japan).

"Lithium ion secondary battery support using solid electrolyte, and lithium ion secondary battery using said support" was invented by Kenta Morimoto (Kochi, Japan), Kentaro Ogawa (Kochi, Japan) and Masahiro Kuroiwa (Kochi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support for a lithium ion secondary battery is included in a solid electrolyte layer of a lithium ion secondary battery, wherein the support is paper or a nonwoven fabric in which the thermal dimensional change rates in the machine direction and cross direction are both -10 to 5%, the air permeability i...