ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,065, issued on July 1.

"Charging inlet assembly having a human machine interface (HMI) assembly" was invented by Matthew Bryan Hitchcock (Hershey, Pa.), Hurley Chester Moll (Hershey, Pa.), Aaron James de Chazal (Rochester, Mich.), Kevin John Peterson (Kernersville, N.C.) and Clara Marguerite Rhodes (Winston Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging inlet assembly includes a housing extending between a front and a rear. The housing has a DC section includes DC terminal channels configured to receive DC terminals. The housing has an AC section including AC terminal channels configured to receive AC terminals. The DC section ...