ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,527, issued on June 16, was assigned to Millibatt Inc. (Los Angeles).

"System and method for depositing separator material" was invented by Leland Smith (West Hollywood, Calif.), Janet Hur (Culver City, Calif.), Cheol Woong Lim (Foster City, Calif.) and Guangyi Sun (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of the method includes: receiving a section of a substrate tape including a substrate within a coating zone; dispensing a volume of separator material droplets onto the first substrate, each droplet in the volume of separator material droplets including a first solvent, a first polymer, and a second polymer; heating t...