ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,913, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Low-cost multi-cationic li-garnet as a solid-state ionic conductor for lithium batteries" was invented by Mahdi Amachraa (Cambridge, Mass.), Samuel Cross (Cambridge, Mass.) and Yan Wang (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium garnet material has the formula Li7-wLa3-x(Ax1Bx2Cx3)Zr2-y(Cy1Dy2Ey3)O12, where -0.2less than equal towless than equal to0.2, A is one or a combination of Na+ and K+, B is one or a combination of two or more of Mg2+, Ca2+, Sr2+, and Ba2+, and C is one or a combination of two or more of Y3+, Sc3+, ...