ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,335, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Easy-to-clean storage device for a charging cable of a motor vehicle" was invented by Scally Rommelfanger (Bad Liebenzell, Germany) and Tobias Bongards (Ludwigsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device (20) is provided for a charging cable that can charge an electrically drivable motor vehicle. The motor vehicle has a trunk (10) with side wall (16). A recess (22) for receiving the charging cable is formed in the side wall (16) and a receiving unit (24) is fastened detachably in the recess (22). The receiving unit (24) can be...