ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,374, issued on July 15, was assigned to BETA Air LLC (South Burlington, Vt.).

"Systems and methods for emergency shutdown of an electric charger by a de-energizing protocol" was invented by Herman Wiegman (South Burlington, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for emergency shutdown of an electric charger using a de-energizing protocol is presented. The system includes a computing device, wherein the computing device is configured to receive a sensor datum from a sensor, determine a disruption element between a charging connector and an electric vehicle as a function of the sensor datum, and initiate a de-energizing protocol a...