ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,387, issued on April 14, was assigned to MICROCOSM TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Separator and application thereof" was invented by Chun-Ting Yeh (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chia Yun Wang (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Sih-Ci Jheng (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a separator formed by hydrolysis of a resin film. The resin film comprises a non-hydrolyzable organic polymer; and a hydrolyzable organic polymer being hydrolyzable by treatment with at least one of an acid aqueous solution, an alkaline aqueous solution and pure water, wherein the content of the hydrolyzable organic pol...