ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,460, issued on March 18, was assigned to LITE-ON Technology Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Power conversion device for an electric vehicle" was invented by Lam Vu (Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Chao Fan (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chih-Yu Kuo (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion device used in electric vehicles includes a transmission assembly and a power converter. The transmission assembly is detachably connected to the electric vehicle and receives a first power from the battery pack of the electric vehicle. The power converter is electrically connected to the transmission assembly and converts the first power into a second...