ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,173, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Lightyear IPCo B.V. (Helmond, Netherlands).
"Electric vehicle, onboard charger, method and computer program" was invented by Jeroen Richard Gertruda Maar (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an electric vehicle comprising an electric circuitry. The electric circuitry comprises a battery and an onboard charger. The battery is configured to store electric energy. The onboard charger and the battery are arranged to form a DC circuit to transfer the electric energy as DC power between the onboard charger and the battery. The onboard charger is configured to conve...