ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,657, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Method and apparatus for determining electric vehicle charging inlet terminal temperature" was invented by Thomas Mathews (Cortland, Ohio) and Michael Phifer (Warren, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle charging system includes a temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of an inlet terminal of an electric vehicle charging inlet and an electronic controller configured to obtain an initial temperature value of the temperature sensor, obtain a current temperature value of the temperature sensor, calculate the inlet termi...