ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,350, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Composite separator including porous substrate with porous layer including polyacrylic acid metal salt binder and inorganic particles, lithium battery including the same, and method of preparing the same" was invented by Minho Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea), Byungmin Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kyoseon Koo (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Esul Jung (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a composite separator, a lithium battery including the same, and a method of manufacturing the composite separator. The composite separato...