ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,090, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BETA Air LLC (South Burlington, Vt.).

"Apparatus for charging an electric vehicle and a method for its use" was invented by Herman Wiegman (Essex Junction, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector for charging an electric vehicle that includes a housing configured to mate with an electric vehicle port of an electric vehicle, at least a sensor configured to detect an attachment datum as a function of the housing mating with an electric vehicle port, and transmit the attachment datum to a computing device, a computing device configured to receive the attachment datum from the at least a sen...