ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,339, issued on July 7, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Solid electrolyte material and battery using same" was invented by Keita Mizuno (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Kubo (Hyogo, Japan), Tetsuya Asano (Nara, Japan), Takehiro Tanaka (Hyogo, Japan), Kensuke Wakasugi (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Komori (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Hamada (Osaka, Japan), Mikiya Fujii (Osaka, Japan) and Akihiro Sakai (Nara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid electrolyte material of the present disclosure consists of Li, M1, M2, and X. The M1 is one selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, and Zn. The M2...