ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,055, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Battery" was invented by Eiichi Koga (Hokkaido, Japan), Kazuhiro Morioka (Osaka, Japan) and Yasutaka Tsutsui (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery includes: an electrode layer; a counter electrode layer, which is a counter electrode for the electrode layer; a solid electrolyte layer between the electrode layer and the counter electrode layer; and an electrode current collector electrically coupled to the electrode layer. The solid electrolyte layer includes a first region containing a first solid electrolyte m...