ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,976, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ONgineer GmbH (Espelkamp, Germany).

"System for providing electric vehicles" was invented by Per-Simon Saal (Bielefeld, Germany), Andre Muller (Rahden, Germany), Peter Bredemeier (PreuBisch Oldendorf, Germany), Claus-Martin Mundel (Rahden, Germany) and Stefan Honerkamp (Bad Essen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system for charging and for holding a battery-powered vehicle (20, 30). The system comprises an adapter (4) for being mounted on the vehicle (20, 30), in particular for being mounted on a cylindrical handlebar (21, 31) of a two-wheeled vehicle, the adap...