US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on Oct. 20 for "Method for controlling the charging process of an electrical energy storage device, and charging device, as well as system consisting of electrified vehicle and charging device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,162, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for controlling the charging process of an electrical energy storage device, and charging device, as well as system consisting of electrified vehicle and charging device" was invented by Jan-Christoph Albrecht (Wolfsburg, Germany), Jochen Westhaeuser (Braunschweig, Germany), Frank Juergen Engler (Wolfsburg, Germany), Carsten Wachsmuth (Schwuelper, Germany) and Arne-Christian Voigt (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling the charging process of an electrical energy storage device, at an electric charging device, w...