ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,153, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Separator for lithium secondary battery and method for manufacturing same" was invented by In-Hyouk Sung (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hye-Jin Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for an electrochemical device having a porous polymer substrate having a plurality of pores; and a porous coating layer formed on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate. The porous coating layer includes a dispersing agent, a mixture of inorganic particles and a particle-type binder polymer, and a polyvinyl pyrrolidone binder po...