US Patent Issued to Scania on Sept. 8 for "Apparatus for the electrical charging of an electrical battery unit of a vehicle" (Greek, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,739, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Scania CV AB (Sodertalje, Sweden).

"Apparatus for the electrical charging of an electrical battery unit of a vehicle" was invented by Ortwin Schluter (Jarna, Sweden) and Andreas Zafeiropoulos (Aten, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for the charging of an electric battery unit of a vehicle, wherein the apparatus comprises an interface for connecting the battery unit to one or more of: a first electrical contact element of a pantograph and a second electrical contact element of the pantograph. The interface comprises one or more connectors. The connector comprises first and seco...