ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,006, issued on July 28, was assigned to ABB E-Mobility B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).

"Charging cable for an electric vehicle with communication capability" was invented by Gertjan Koolen (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Cristoforo La Rosa (Toscana, Italy), Lars Bech (Schiedam, Netherlands), Miguel Rodriguez Escude (Schiedam, Netherlands), Jim van-der-Heijden (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Stefan Raaijmakers (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging cable for an electric vehicle includes at least two power lines configured for conducting a charging current, and two high-frequency communication lines being separate and extendin...