US Patent Issued to Procom Engineering on Feb. 17 for "Charging port alignment methods and apparatus for robotic car chargers" (California, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,273, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Procom Engineering Inc. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

"Charging port alignment methods and apparatus for robotic car chargers" was invented by Wesley Zhou (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Shepherd Darquea (Carson City, Nev.) and Morgan Simpson (Carson City, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for interconnecting a vehicle charging connector with a charging port of a vehicle wherein a latch arm is slidably mounted in the charging connector to slide toward and away from the charging port and toward and into an opening in the charging port. A tip portion is positioned on the latch arm so as to be inse...