US Patent Issued to Celgard on Sept. 15 for "Microporous membrane separators for lithium ion rechargeable batteries and related methods" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,599, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Celgard LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Microporous membrane separators for lithium ion rechargeable batteries and related methods" was invented by Xiaomin Zhang (Charlotte, N.C.), Kang Karen Xiao (Mississauga, Canada), Robert A. Nark (Charlotte, N.C.) and Ron E. Smith (Huntersville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least selected embodiments to novel or improved microporous battery separators for lithium rechargeable batteries and/or related methods of making and/or using such separators are disclosed. A particular inventive dry process battery separator or membrane separator exhibits a thi...