ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,557, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Separator for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same" was invented by Seong-Hee Noh (Daejeon, South Korea) and Su-Jin Park (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the separator, including a porous polymer substrate; and a porous coating layer on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate. The porous coating layer includes first inorganic particles surface-treated with a polyphenol-containing compound, seco...