ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,959, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Separator for electrochemical device and electrochemical device including the same" was invented by Jin Young Shin (Daejeon, South Korea), So Mi Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Ji Hyun Bang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Won Sik Bae (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for an electrochemical device includes a porous polymer substrate; a first coating layer provided on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate and containing a first polymer resin of a first solubility in an electrolyte; and a second coating layer pr...