ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,022, issued on April 29, was assigned to KOSTAL Automobil Elektrik GmbH & Co. KG (Luedenscheid, Germany).
"System for conductively charging a motor vehicle" was invented by Christian Hirschauer (Schwelm, Germany), Georg Schroeder (Drolshagen, Germany), Herwig Rilling (Kamen, Germany), Uwe Pitzul (Hagen, Germany), Klaus Hirschfeld (Luedenscheid, Germany), Robin Perlick (Werdohl, Germany) and Christina Koenig (Hagen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for conductively charging a motor vehicle includes a charging device and a receiving device. The charging device has an electrical contacting unit and a lifting device operabl...