ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,717, issued on June 24, was assigned to SK SIGNET INC. (Jeollanam-do, South Korea).

"Distributed power sharing type electric vehicle charging system" was invented by Tae Eun Mun (Seoul, South Korea), Min Gyu Son (Seoul, South Korea), Young Jun Kim (Goyang-si Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Ho Byung Chae (Seoul, South Korea) and Jong Hoon Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed power-sharing electric vehicle (EV) charging. The system comprises multiple chargers connected via a network. Each charger includes a power module configured to store direct current (DC) power, an output port for supplying power to an e...