ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,237, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery cell and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Jun-Soo Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Bum-Young Jung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery cell including an electrode assembly present in a battery casing. The electrode assembly includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator includes a porous polymer substrate, a first organic/inorganic porous coating layer on at least one surface of the porous polymer...