US Patent Issued to Daramic on Feb. 18 for "Functionalized lead acid battery separators, improved lead acid batteries, and related methods" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,769, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Daramic LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Functionalized lead acid battery separators, improved lead acid batteries, and related methods" was invented by J. Kevin Whear (Utica, Ky.), Ahila Krishnamoorthy (Karnataka, India) and Susmitha Appikatla (Owensboro, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with at least selected embodiments, the present application or invention is directed to novel or improved porous membranes or substrates, separator membranes, separators, composites, electrochemical devices, batteries, methods of making such membranes or substrates, separators, and/or batteries, and/or ...