ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,664, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CHARGEPOINT INC. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Electric vehicle charging connector adapter nested in an electric vehicle supply equipment" was invented by William Rich (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Parth Sanjiv Gyani (Redwood City, Calif.), Tung-Po Yang (Los Gatos, Calif.), Jacky S. Wong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gopalakrishna Ranjan Melpal (Cupertino, Calif.), Jeffrey T. Barone (Saratoga, Calif.), Hossein Kazemi (San Francisco), Dennis Michael Heleine (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Masoud Yazdanian (San Jose, Calif.) and John Hsudan Yu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging connector adapter is neste...