ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,988, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Electric vehicle charging device and method for controlling same" was invented by Sunyoung Noh (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyungmin Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Sunguk Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Myoungho Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Doyeon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an electric vehicle charging device and to a method for controlling same. The electric vehicle charging device includes a plurality of charging cables installed in one electric vehicle charger. After battery...