ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,953, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"All solid state battery" was invented by Satomi Yamamoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Keisuke Omori (Okazaki, Japan) and Hajime Hasegawa (Aichi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An all solid state battery in which shift in positions of a plurality of a cell unit arranged along a thickness direction can be prevented is provided. The all solid state battery includes a plurality of the cell unit connected in series. The all solid state battery includes a cell unit A and a cell unit B, a second current collector AY in the cell unit A and a second current collector B...