US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on July 28 for "Method and device for autonomously plugging a charging plug into a charging socket of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,775, issued on July 28, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Germany).

"Method and device for autonomously plugging a charging plug into a charging socket of a vehicle" was invented by Zsolt Farkas (Wolfsburg, Germany), Daniel Schulze (Braunschweig, Germany), Maxim Derksen (Wolfsburg, Germany), Lisa Rangosch (Konigslutter, Germany), Peter Motzko (Schoppenstedt, Germany) and Robert Schirmer (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomously plugging a charging plug installed on a programmable robot arm into a charging socket of a transportation vehicle. The method includes a camera to locate the charging socket by image anal...