ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,851, issued on May 13, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Separator, preparation method therefor and related secondary battery, battery module, battery pack and device" was invented by Haiyi Hong (Ningde, China), Cong Cheng (Ningde, China), Yuanyuan Lan (Ningde, China), Jianrui Yang (Ningde, China), Na Liu (Ningde, China) and Haizu Jin (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a separator, comprising a substrate and a coating formed on at least one surface of the substrate; wherein the coating comprises inorganic particles and organic particles, the or...