US Patent Issued to LISA DRAEXLMAIER on May 5 for "Charging socket for a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,748, issued on May 5, was assigned to LISA DRAEXLMAIER GMBH (Vilsbiburg, Germany).

"Charging socket for a vehicle" was invented by Stephan Heckelsmueller (Eching, Germany) and Johannes Tausch (Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging socket for a vehicle, includes at least two contact elements, each contact element having a latent heat storage unit. The latent heat storage unit includes a phase change material arranged in a container. The container is thermally coupled to the respective contact element and is arranged in a current path between the contact element and a terminal of the contact element f...