US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on June 24 for "Apparatus for holding cable for electric vehicle charger and method of driving same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,711, issued on June 24, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for holding cable for electric vehicle charger and method of driving same" was invented by Woo Hyung Lee (Uijeongbu-si, South Korea), Su Hwan Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Young Tae Choi (Gwacheon-si, South Korea), Kwang Min Oh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Ho Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for holding a cable for an electric vehicle charger includes a cable holding unit configured to restrict a charging cable extended and connected to a charging coupler, and to ascend or...