ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,094, issued on July 21, was assigned to SHANGHAI ENERGY NEW MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Battery diaphragm and lithium battery prepared therefrom" was invented by Dawei Cao (Shanghai), Yongle Chen (Shanghai), Zhi Zhuang (Shanghai) and Qian Cheng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a battery diaphragm, including: a porous substrate and an adhesive layer formed on the side of the porous substrate. The adhesive layer includes a polymer material with an adhesive property. The adhesive layer has a coating coefficient C. The coating coefficient C is equal to a ratio of the adhesive streng...