US Patent Issued to BYD on March 31 for "Vehicle charging port cover control method and vehicle charging port cover control device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,488, issued on March 31, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Vehicle charging port cover control method and vehicle charging port cover control device" was invented by Canlin Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Xiaoling Zheng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for a charging port cover of a vehicle including a charging end assembly. The charging end assembly includes a charging port having a fast charging port and a slow charging port and a charging port cover having a fast charging port cover and a slow charging port cover. The method includes: when a charging port cover opening signal is received...