ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,112, issued on March 3, was assigned to ABB E-Mobility B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).

"Electric vehicle charging connector with external passive cooling" was invented by Francisco Garcia-Ferre (Baden, Switzerland), Jaroslav Hemrle (Baden-Dattwil, Switzerland), Elise Fahy (Schlieren, Switzerland), Pedram Kheiri (Hausen, Switzerland), Ali Ugur (The Hague, Netherlands) and Wojciech Wysocki (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle charging connector (100) comprising an external enclosure (104), an inner enclosure, and a compartment (102) for power contacts. The external enclosure (104) encloses an inner enclosure (1...