ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,877, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for smoothed supply current of high-voltage consumers on the high-voltage intermediate circuit of the charging device" was invented by Moritz Eitler (Stuttgart, Germany) and Eric Mueller (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method provides a supply current (303) for high-voltage consumers (114), in which a battery-electric vehicle has a charging power unit with a high-voltage intermediate circuit (110) for charging a high-voltage battery (102). The high-voltage intermediate circuit (110) incl...