ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,312, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Power socket for detecting power plug" was invented by Xi Zhen Hu (Shandong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power socket includes a terminal support base, at least one set of conductive terminals, at least one slider, an elastic component, a circuit board component, a photoelectric sensor, and a controller, wherein the photoelectric sensor is configured to detect the extending plate passing through the through hole to generate a trigger signal, and the controller is electrically connected to the photoelectric ...