US Patent Issued to LG ENERGY SOLUTION on Sept. 8 for "Separator for electrochemical device and method for manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,861, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Separator for electrochemical device and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Da-Kyung Han (Daejeon, South Korea), So-Mi Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Min-Ji Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for an electrochemical device, where the separator includes a semi-crystalline and/or amorphous polymer, such as polyvinyl acetate and polyethylene-co-vinyl acetate, as a binder polymer of an inorganic coating layer. The surfaces of the inorganic particles are at least partially coated with a coupling agent. ...