ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,323, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LISA DRAXLMAIER GMBH (Vilsbiburg, Germany).

"Charging socket for a vehicle having a simple structure" was invented by Oliver Ranftl (Mauerkirchen, Austria) and Markus Kreuzhuber (Ried, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging socket for a vehicle is disclosed. The charging socket includes two L-shaped intermediate brackets which each electrically conductingly connect a contact element of the charging socket to an interface of the charging socket to a conductor of a cable harness of the vehicle. The contact is arranged at a country-specific or variant-specific spacing to one another on ...