ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,792, issued on May 27, was assigned to BP PULSE FLEET NORTH AMERICA INC. (Mountain View, Calif.) and TEICHERT INC. (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Mounting system for an electric vehicle charging apparatus" was invented by Jeff Palmer (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Chris Pettigrew (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Erik Andreas Karlsson (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle charger charging apparatus is configured to suspend from a canopy and connect to an electric vehicle from above the vehicle. The canopy has a purlin frame and supports a photovoltaic module for generating electricity. The electric vehicle charging apparatus suspend...