ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,748, issued on Aug. 5.

"Smart EV charger with adaptive interface and multi-protocol compatibility" was invented by Peter Ibrahim (Westmount, Canada), Hani Vahedi (Brossard, Canada), Jean-Hugues Deschenes (Montreal, Canada) and Marc-Andre Forget (Saint Lazare, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An EV charger has an AC port, a variable voltage DC power supply connected to the AC port and comprising a controller having an input to receive charging parameters, a charge cable connector connectable to a battery, an interface connectable to the connectors and to the input of the DC power supply wherein the interface performs either transl...