US Patent Issued to AUDI on March 31 for "Method for charging an electrical energy accumulator of a motor vehicle, a motor vehicle, and a charging station" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,666, issued on March 31, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for charging an electrical energy accumulator of a motor vehicle, a motor vehicle, and a charging station" was invented by Christian Rebinger (Munich) and Dirk Schroeder (Manching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for charging at least one electrical energy accumulator of a motor vehicle, in which electrical energy from a charging station external to the motor vehicle is transferred across a detachable electrical connection to the energy accumulator, while a cooling fluid is taken from the charging station across a detachable cooling fluid...