ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,958, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Separator for electrochemical device, and electrochemical device comprising same" was invented by Dong-Wook Sung (Daejeon, South Korea), Hye-Jin Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Sun-Yong Shin (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jong-Yoon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for an electrochemical device having a low content of secondary particles formed by aggregation of inorganic particles in the inorganic coating layer. The separator has a low content of secondary particles protruding from the separator surface to a predetermi...