US Patent Issued to on May 27 for "Charge port door" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,788, issued on May 27, was assigned to SL Corp. (Daegu, South Korea).

"Charge port door" was invented by Daehee Kwak (Gyeongsan-si, South Korea), Taewon Park (Gyeongsan-si, South Korea) and Mansoo Heo (Gyeongsan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging port door is provided. The charging port door includes a door panel for opening and closing a charging housing that accommodates a charging port therein, an optical unit included within the door panel for irradiating light to an exterior of the door panel, and a controller for controlling the optical unit. In particular, the controller is configured to control the opti...