US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Feb. 24 for "Charging connector release mechanism" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,529, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Charging connector release mechanism" was invented by Philipp Josef Wolf (Dana Point, Calif.), Barry Lett (Chobham, Great Britain), James John Alexander Dowle (Laguna Beach, Calif.), Raghav Jaswal (Coventry, Great Britain), Charles Sanderson (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Marcus Edward Merideth (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging port for an electric vehicle includes a charging socket, a push rod actuator, and a push rod coupled to the push rod actuator. The charging socket is configured to receive a charging connector of a charger (e...