ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,399, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co. Ltd. (Ningbo, China) and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. Ltd. (Zhejiang, China).

"On-board electrical system for an electric vehicle" was invented by Heza Sorani (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden), Nils Hoglund (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Fehmi Fetiu (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical system for an electric vehicle includes a high-voltage power supply including a high-voltage storage system in series with a high-voltage switch, first and second low-voltage power supplies respectively having first and second low-voltage storage systems...