US Patent Issued to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, The University of Connecticut, The Board of the Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Oct. 6 for "Connector apparatus for electric charging cable" (California, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,866, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.), The University of Connecticut (Farmington, Conn.) and The Board of the Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Connector apparatus for electric charging cable" was invented by Hamidreza Shabgard (Norman, Okla.), Amir Faghri (Los Angeles), Kenneth Goodson (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Mehdi Asheghi (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector apparatus for an electric charging cable, such as for use with a charging station and an electric vehicle, the connector apparatus comprising: a...