ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,093, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to JOYSONQUIN Automotive Systems GmbH (Rutesheim, Germany).
"Charging station" was invented by Konstantin Schmidt (Stuttgart, Germany), Lucia Hornfischer (Stuttgart, Germany), Claudia Wengert (Pforzheim, Germany) and Ionut Oprea (Com. Sanpetru-Jud. Brasov, Romania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging station for charging an electric vehicle with a housing which has a rear side and a visible side located opposite thereto, wherein between the rear side and the visible side there is formed a storage region adapted to compactly hold a charging cable provided with a charging plug. A decorative ele...