US Patent Issued to Celgard on Sept. 9 for "Battery separators, coated battery separators, batteries, and related methods" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,956, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Celgard LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Battery separators, coated battery separators, batteries, and related methods" was invented by Kang Karen Xiao (Mississauga, Canada), Allen M. Donn (Rock Hill, S.C.), Stefan Reinartz (Waxhaw, N.C.), Changqing Wang Adams (Fort Mill, S.C.), Masaaki Okada (Charlotte, N.C.), Brian R. Stepp (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Eric Robert White (Fort Mill, S.C.) and Katharine Chemelewski (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new or improved microporous monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, or multilayer membrane, separator membrane, separator, or coated separator is disclosed. ...