US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on May 13 for "Charging system for a vehicle and a method for controlling the charging system" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,046, issued on May 13, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Charging system for a vehicle and a method for controlling the charging system" was invented by Mikaela Ohman (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Victor Sandgren (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging system for an energy storage in a vehicle comprising: a plurality of parallelly arranged charging switch units, each charging switch unit having an input terminal configured to be connected to a common charging port, and an output terminal configured to be connected to the energy storage, wherein each charging switch unit comprises a contactor co...