ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,320, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Charging system and electric vehicle" was invented by Xueliang Zhang (Xi'an, China) and Yang Cheng (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a charging system and an electric vehicle. The charging system includes a motor control unit (MCU) and a first inductor. A first bridge arm in the MCU and the first inductor constitute a voltage conversion circuit. When a power supply voltage is less than a minimum charging voltage of a power battery, the MCU may perform boost conversion on the power supply voltage ...