ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,391, issued on May 26, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Separator for lithium ion secondary battery and lithium metal battery including the same" was invented by Hyun-Woong Yun (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jong-Pil Jegal (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a separator for a lithium metal battery and a lithium ion secondary battery including the same. The separator is provided with a porous coating layer including a high content of binder resin. The content of binder resin in the porous coating layer is 25 wt % or more based on 100 wt % of the porous coating...