ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,588, issued on June 17, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Separator for electrochemical device and an electrochemical device including same" was invented by Min Ji Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Hyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kyung Ryun Ka (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for an electrochemical device including a porous polymer substrate and a porous coating layer on at least one side of the porous polymer substrate. The porous coating layer includes first binder particles, second binder particles, and inorganic particles. The inorganic particles are mostly disperse...