ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,812, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method for producing all solid-state battery, and all solid-state battery" was invented by Motoshi Isono (Toyota, Japan), Norihiro Ose (Sunto-gun, Japan) and Tomoya Suzuki (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is suppressed that an active material particle enters into or penetrates through a solid electrolyte layer when an active material layer and the solid electrolyte layer are pressed and that short circuits between a cathode and an anode occur. A method for producing an all solid-state battery includes: a first step of stacking an active mate...