US Patent Issued to Procom Engineering on May 6 for "Electric vehicle charge robot plug in mechanism" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,117, issued on May 6, was assigned to Procom Engineering Inc. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

"Electric vehicle charge robot plug in mechanism" was invented by Wesley Zhou (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Ritzo Muntinga (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for charging electric vehicles is provided. The apparatus includes a housing, a sleeve extending from the housing, a first nozzle assembly designed to move inside the sleeve and to engage a charging port of an electric vehicle, and a second nozzle assembly designed to move inside the sleeve independently of the first nozzle assembly. The second nozzle assembly has a recess...