ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,951, issued on May 12, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Solid electrolyte material and battery using same" was invented by Kazufumi Miyatake (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Nishio (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Kubo (Hyogo, Japan), Tetsuya Asano (Nara, Japan) and Akihiro Sakai (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The solid electrolyte material of the present disclosure is made of Li, Ca, Y, Gd, X, and O, where X is at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I; and the molar ratio of O to the sum of Y and Gd is greater than O and 0.51 or less."

The patent was filed on S...