ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,441, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG (Waiblingen, Germany).
"Charger" was invented by Leonard Mattheis (Waiblingen, Germany), Christian Grobe (Itzehoe, Germany), Tobias Frank Rastetter (Pinneberg, Germany) and Nils Jakubietz (Burg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charger has a plurality of electrical interfaces, wherein a respective electrical interface is able to be coupled to an electrical energy store to be charged, in order to charge the electrical energy store to be charged. A common charge line of the charger carries a charging potential, in particular a positive charging potential, during th...