US Patent Issued to Celgard on March 11 for "Low electrical resistance microporous battery separator membranes, separators, cells, batteries, and related methods" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,520, issued on March 11, was assigned to Celgard LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Low electrical resistance microporous battery separator membranes, separators, cells, batteries, and related methods" was invented by Xiaomin Zhang (Charlotte, N.C.) and Lie Shi (Matthews, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microporous battery separator membranes, separators, batteries including such membranes, separators are provided. A battery separator for a secondary or rechargeable lithium battery may have low Electrical resistance of less than 0.95 ohm-cm2. The inventive battery separator membrane may provide a means to achieve an improved level of batte...