ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,838, issued on April 8, was assigned to Contemporary Amperex Technology (Hong Kong) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Separator, process for preparing the same, lithium ion secondary battery, battery module, battery pack and apparatus" was invented by Wei Li (Ningde, China), Chao Jin (Ningde, China), Haihao Shi (Ningde, China) and Qian Li (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments provide a separator, a process for preparing the same, a lithium ion secondary battery, a battery module, a battery pack and an apparatus. The separator provided by the present application comprises a porous base film and a functional coating di...