ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,837, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Separator having coating layer with ternary acrylic copolymer and inorganic particles with different particle diameters, and lithium secondary battery comprising same" was invented by Jungyoon Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Gain Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yangseob Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yongkyoung Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Yeonjoo Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a separator for a lithium secondary battery, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. The separator ...