US Patent Issued to AUDI, HAGER ELECTRO on Sept. 8 for "Supplementary charging device for an ac wallbox as well as AC-DC wallbox comprising such a supplementary charging device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,742, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany) and HAGER ELECTRO GMBH & Co. KG (Blieskastel, Germany).

"Supplementary charging device for an ac wallbox as well as AC-DC wallbox comprising such a supplementary charging device" was invented by Martin Dehm (Monheim, Germany) and Ulrich Reiner (Hochspeyer, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supplementary charging device for an AC wallbox includes a housing, a first port for coupling to a charging port of a vehicle, the first port including an AC port and a DC port, a second port for coupling to an AC output of the AC wallbox via an AC charging cable, an at le...