US Patent Issued to DARAMIC on Aug. 12 for "Separators for enhanced flooded batteries, batteries, and related methods" (American, French, German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,155, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DARAMIC LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Separators for enhanced flooded batteries, batteries, and related methods" was invented by Mohammed Naiha (Chatenois, France), Jorg Deiters (Ettenheim, Germany), Ahila Krishnamoorthy (Bangalore, India), Eric H. Miller (Philpot, Ky.), J. Kevin Whear (Utica, Ky.), Robert W. Saffel (Rockport, Ind.), Naoto Miyake (Newburgh, Ind.) and Kanak Kuwelkar (Owensboro, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery separator has performance enhancing additives or coatings, fillers with increased friability, increased ionic diffusion, decreased tortuosity, increased wettability,...