ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,001, issued on May 12, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Separator for lithium secondary battery, the method for manufacturing the same and lithium secondary battery including the same" was invented by Hye-Jin Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyung-Ryun Ka (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seung-Hyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for a lithium secondary battery, a method for manufacturing the same, and a secondary battery including the same. The separator includes a porous coating layer including a top layer, an intermediate layer, and a bottom layer. An amount of a particle-typ...