ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,656, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BETA AIR LLC (South Burlington, Vt.).

"Systems and methods for an electric vehicle charger" was invented by John Charles Palombini (Charlotte, Vt.), Skye Carapetyan (Folsom, Calif.), Richard Donnelly (South Burlington, Vt.), Jake Pill (Burlington, Vt.), Edward Hall (Starksboro, Vt.), Cole William Hanson (Burlington, Vt.) and James Whitehill (Jeffersonville, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide an electric vehicle charger including a charger base housing an energy source, a charging cable coupled to the energy source, a charging connector for coupling the char...