ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,920, issued on March 25, was assigned to Wobben Properties GmbH (Aurich, Germany).

"AC charging station for charging electric vehicles with phase change" was invented by Johannes Brombach (Berlin), Christian Strafiel (Aurich, Germany) and Alfred Beekmann (Wiesmoor, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging station for charging electric vehicles is provided. The charging station includes a plurality of AC charging terminals, each for charging an electric vehicle by means of alternating current. Each of the AC charging terminals is connected to a three-phase power supply via a respective phase-change device in order to be supp...