US Patent Issued to Kongsberg Maritime AS on Nov. 4 for "Onboard medium-voltage vessel electric charging apparatus and method for onboard charging" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,389, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Kongsberg Maritime AS (Horten, Norway).

"Onboard medium-voltage vessel electric charging apparatus and method for onboard charging" was invented by Bijan Zahedi (Kongsberg, Norway), Jens Hjorteset (Bjoroyhamn, Norway) and Joao Pedro Meira Rego (Kongsberg, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Onboard medium-voltage vessel electric charging apparatus and method for onboard medium-voltage charging enabling compensating for voltage variations of at least one energy storage device during charging thereof."

The patent was filed on Oct. 7, 2022, under Application No. 18/699,926.

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