US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions on Sept. 16 for "Charging inlet assembly having a proximity resistor assembly" (Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,149, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Switzerland).

"Charging inlet assembly having a proximity resistor assembly" was invented by Matthew Bryan Hitchcock (Hershey, Pa.), Hurley Chester Moll (Hershey, Pa.), Kevin John Peterson (Kernersville, N.C.), Clara Marguerite Rhodes (Winston Salem, N.C.) and Aaron James de Chazal (Rochester, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging inlet assembly includes a housing having a DC section with DC terminals received in DC terminal channels for mating with a DC charging connector and AC terminals, including a proximity terminal, received in AC terminal chann...