ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,371, issued on June 16, was assigned to Lisa Draexlmaier GmbH (Vilsbiburg, Germany).

"Method of manufacturing a charging device with a contact housing of an electrically powered vehicle" was invented by Uros Livk (Garching, Germany), Peter Esterbauer (Ranshofen, Austria), Arvid Kim (Pleiskirchen, Germany), Rupert Feischl (GroBgmain, Austria) and Manuel Leitner (Braunau, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a charging device with a contact housing of an electrically powered vehicle including the steps of providing at least one electrical contact element having a contact area, the electrical contact element ...