ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,154, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SK ON Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Separators improved thermal resistance and secondary battery comprising same" was invented by Yun Kyung Jo (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Woong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeong Han Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Whee Sung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a separator including a coating layer and a substrate, wherein phase-change peak temperatures measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at the time of a first temperature increase and at the time of a second temperature increase satisfy specif...