US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 23 for "Charge port cooling system for an electric vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,651, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Charge port cooling system for an electric vehicle" was invented by Chih-Hung Yen (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Satish P. Ketkar (Troy, Mich.), Peter Paul Andruskiewicz IV (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Seunghwan Keum (Northville, Mich.), Taeyoung Han (Troy, Mich.), Vicente Domenech-Llopis (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Orlando Saenz Fuentes (St. Clair Shores, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge port for an electric vehicle includes a first charging terminal, a second charging terminal spaced from the first charging terminal, and a phase change materi...