US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on June 23 for "Method and apparatus for autonomously plugging a charging plug into a charging socket of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,009, issued on June 23, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method and apparatus 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: "Technologies and techniques for autonomously plugging a charging plug into a charging socket of a vehicle, wherein the charging plug is installed on a programmable robot arm of a chargin...