US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on June 23 for "Method and charging system for charging an electrical energy storage device of an electrically driven vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,011, issued on June 23, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and charging system for charging an electrical energy storage device of an electrically driven vehicle" was invented by Alexander Aspacher (Weil der Stadt, Germany), Juergen Benecke (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Urs Boehme (Ehningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for charging an energy storage device of a vehicle. A charging process of the energy storage device is carried out with a charging device of the vehicle. In a first phase of the charging process, the energy storage device is charged with a first DC voltage of the charg...