ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,394, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ABB E-Mobility B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).

"Electrical vehicle charging system for preventing of simultaneous closing of outlet contactors" was invented by Gertjan Koolen (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Jim Van-Der-Heijden (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for electrical vehicle charging includes a plurality of outlets, at least one parallelization switch, a guarding wire running in parallel along a DC path formed by outlet switches and at least one parallelization switch and comprising a plurality of outlet guarding switches, a plurality of current sensors, a...