ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,947, issued on April 29, was assigned to Tyco Electronics Technology (SIP) Ltd. (Suzhou, China) and Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).
"Charging socket" was invented by Renyi Dou (Suzhou, China), Fangyue Zhu (Shanghai) and Qun Zhang (Suzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging socket has a housing; a charging terminal installed in the housing; an electric adapter installed in the housing; and a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the charging terminal. The electric adapter has a body and a connection terminal provided in the body, and the connection terminal has an input end and an output end....