ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,709, issued on May 13, was assigned to SHANGHAI DIANBA NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai) and AULTON NEW ENERGY AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY GROUP (Shanghai).

"Battery locking/unlocking method, electric vehicle battery swapping control method" was invented by Zhihao Chen (Shanghai), Chunhua Huang (Shanghai) and Danliang Qiu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a battery unlocking control method, a battery locking control method and an electric vehicle battery swapping control method. The battery locking control method comprises the following steps: moving the battery to the fixing base to enable the lock shafts to en...