ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,849, issued on May 13, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Separator for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery comprising same" was invented by Gain Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Dongwan Seo (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yeonjoo Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yangseob Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yongkyoung Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jungyoon Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Hyeonsun 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 incl...