ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,577, issued on June 16, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Switzerland).

"Charging inlet assembly of a vehicle" was invented by Kevin John Peterson (Kernersville, N.C.), Ram Kishore Venkatesan (Winston Salem, N.C.), Aaron James de Chazal (Rochester, Mich.), Matthew Bryan Hitchcock (Hershey, Pa.) and Daniel Williams Fry Jr. (Middletown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging inlet assembly includes a charging inlet housing having terminal channels and cable channels. The charging inlet assembly includes charging terminals including a first charging terminal and a second charging terminal received in the correspondi...