ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,892, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"On-board charger for vehicle battery and method of charging and using vehicle battery" was invented by Eduardo Facanha De Oliveira (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle that includes an on-board charger for a battery of an electric vehicle. The electric vehicle includes an AC machine and an inverter drive for the AC machine. The on-board charger includes an integrated active filter rectifier coupled to a DC/DC converter. The integrated active filter rectifier is configured to use at least one phase inductor of the ...