ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,002, issued on May 12, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Separator for electrochemical device and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Seung-Hyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong-Wook Sung (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hyun-Kyung Shin (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for an electrochemical device including a heat resistant layer and an adhesive layer and a method for manufacturing the same. The separator uses a heat resistant polymer having a high melting point for a heat resistant layer and shows excellent peel strength between the separator substrate and the hea...