US Patent Issued to Apollo Autonomous Driving USA on June 30 for "Automatic positioning and interlock system for conductive automated connection device on the charging infrastructure" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,139, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apollo Autonomous Driving USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Automatic positioning and interlock system for conductive automated connection device on the charging infrastructure" was invented by Hang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system and method that determines, by a charging station, that a vehicle is aligned to a predetermined charging position. The predetermined charging position is a location at which a first set of electrical contacts on the charging station aligns with a second set of electrical contacts on the vehicle. The system an...