ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,741, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Charging apparatus and new energy vehicle" was invented by Yanjun Hu (Dongguan, China), Feng Wen (Shenzhen, China) and Tianyu Wang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging apparatus is applied to a new energy vehicle. The new energy vehicle includes a first battery and a second battery. The first battery provides driving power for the new energy vehicle, and the second battery supplies power to a vehicle-mounted load device. The apparatus includes a charging unit and a general-purpose unit. The charging unit includes...