ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,436, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDI Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Separator and lithium battery employing same" was invented by Jinyoung Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hana Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Byungmin Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Minho Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The separator includes: a porous substrate; a first coating layer arranged on at least one surface of the porous substrate, the first coating layer including a binder and inorganic particles, wherein the binder includes a cross-linked product of an aqueous cross-linking reactive poly(vinylamide)-based copolym...