ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,411, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and Panasonic Holdings Corp. (Kadoma, Japan).

"Method of producing all-solid-state battery" was invented by Kazuya Otsu (Miyoshi, Japan), Akio Kaneyama (Hirakata, Japan) and Takaaki Tamura (Osaka-fu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing an all-solid-state battery comprises preparing a second slurry which is a solid electrolyte slurry, and applying the second slurry to a foundation layer using a die head to form a solid electrolyte layer. A pressure P of the second slurry and a viscosity Eta of the second slurry inside the die head at a...