ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,749, issued on June 2, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Battery" was invented by Takashi Oto (Osaka, Japan) and Masahisa Fujimoto (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the first electrode includes a current collector and an active material layer disposed between the current collector and the solid electrolyte layer, and the active material layer contains Bi as a main component of an active material."
The patent was fil...