ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,538, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Separator for secondary battery and secondary battery including the same" was invented by Hye-Jin Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Su-Jin Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea), Jong-Heon Kwak (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jeong-Ae Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for a secondary battery, including: a porous polymer substrate having a plurality of pores; and a porous coating layer on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate, the porous coating layer including a plurality of inorganic particles, a binder polymer and a ...