ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,781, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Gouchuang Innovation Center of Mobile Energy (Jiangsu) Co. Ltd. (Jiangsu, China).

"Charging apparatus" was invented by Lixiong Xu (Jiangsu, China), Jianghui Yuan (Jiangsu, China), Linyu Jiang (Jiangsu, China), Chengfei Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Ming Li (Jiangsu, China) and Ao Zhou (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to the technical field of charging, and in particular, relates to a charging apparatus. A charging apparatus includes a support unit; a charging bow lifted and assembled on the support unit; a retractable mechanism, where the retractable mechanism retra...