US Patent Issued to Pacific Industrial Development on Oct. 20 for "Zeolite-based composite separator for a lithium-ion secondary battery and manufacturing method thereof" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,975, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Pacific Industrial Development Corp. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Zeolite-based composite separator for a lithium-ion secondary battery and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Shuang Gao (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Yunkui Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.), David Shepard (Canton, Mich.) and Ashwin Sankaran (Arnhem, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for use in an electrochemical cell, such as a lithium-ion secondary battery, that includes a plurality of first inorganic particles, one or more second inorganic particles, a polymeric binder, wherein the weight ratio of the first inorganic particl...