ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,281, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Separator for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery comprising same" was invented by Hye-Jin Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Myeong-Soo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin-Woo Heo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for a lithium secondary battery, including a porous polymer substrate; and a porous coating layer on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate. The porous coating layer includes flame-resistant particles, a heat resistant binder polymer and a fluorine-containing binder polymer. Eac...