ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,273, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Separator for secondary battery" was invented by Seung Hyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyung Ryun Ka (Daejeon, South Korea), Min Ji Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hye Won Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for a secondary battery including a porous separator substrate including a polymer; and a coating layer on at least one surface of the porous separator substrate. The coating layer includes a crystalline first binder and a noncrystalline second binder. The crystalline first binder and the noncrystalline second...