US Patent Issued to Technische Universitat Graz on March 24 for "Method for automatically establishing a plug-in connection in order to charge electric vehicles" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,341, issued on March 24, was assigned to Technische Universitat Graz (Graz, Austria).

"Method for automatically establishing a plug-in connection in order to charge electric vehicles" was invented by Bernhard Walzel (Eggersdorf bei Graz, Austria), Mario Hirz (Graz, Austria) and Helmut Brunner (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for automatically establishing a plug-in connection for charging electric vehicles, first the relative position between a free plug-in connector on a positioning head that can be moved in at least two spatial directions, and a permanently installed plug-in connector is determined by a po...