ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,324, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Hubbell Inc. (Shelton, Conn.).
"Distributed charging station" was invented by Nelson Bonilla (Shelton, Conn.), John Brower (Fairfield, Conn.), Jason Walker (Bethany, Conn.), Nicole Gay (Thomaston, Conn.), Matthew Samojeden (Rye, N.Y.) and Shadi Alex AbuGhazaleh (Guilford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device charging system may include a battery module configured to supply a type of power to at least one load device. A device charging system may include a central charging station configured to charge the battery module, the central charging station including a locking mechanism, wherein ...