ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,947, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Charging connector" was invented by Sho Hagita (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yasutaka Miyazaki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging connector includes a housing and a cover. The housing includes a normal fitting part and a quick fitting part. The normal fitting part has a normal frontage to which a normal charging connector is finable. The quick fitting part has a quick frontage to which a quick charging connector is finable. The cover is configured to close the quick frontage. The quick fitting part has a terminal insertion hole through which a terminal of ...