US Patent Issued to ABB E-Mobility on May 26 for "Charging system for electric vehicles" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,570, issued on May 26, was assigned to ABB E-Mobility B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).

"Charging system for electric vehicles" was invented by Uwe Drofenik (Zurich, Switzerland), Francisco Canales (Baden-Dattwil, Switzerland) and Ki-Bum Park (Fislisbach, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging system for electric vehicles includes a line interphase transformer, LIT-based rectifier configured for connecting an input of the LIT-based rectifier to an AC medium-voltage power signal and for outputting a medium-voltage DC-signal; a modular DC/AC converter with large step-down gain is configured for transforming the medium-voltage DC...