ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,140, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"All-solid-state battery and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Shuzo Tsuchida (Nara, Japan), Ami Okabe (Osaka, Japan), Yoshiro Kitamura (Osaka, Japan) and Akihiro Horikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An all-solid-state battery has a structure in which a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode layer containing a positive electrode active material and a solid electrolyte, a solid electrolyte layer containing a solid electrolyte, a negative electrode layer containing a negative el...