ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,536, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ChargePoint Technology Ltd. (Liverpool, Great Britain).
"Transfer device" was invented by Mathew Carmichael (Liverpool, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer device having an active member comprising a main body having an inlet and an outlet that can communicate with one another such that material may pass therethrough by means of a moveable/extendable conduit moveable between a stowed configuration in which the inlet and outlet are not directly linked and an extended configuration in which the conduit extends between the outlet and inlet and in which the outlet and inlet are ...