ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,809, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Audi AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Hybrid rear axle drive" was invented by Peer Christopher Lege (Kronau, Germany), Christian Fritz (Mosbach, Germany), Andreas Amann (Reilingen, Germany), Markus Von Berg (Oberderdingen, Germany), Matthieu Kinnel (Heilbronn-Sontheim, Germany) and Philipp Dohmann (Sinsheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybridized rear axle drive (H-RAD) includes an electrical torque vectoring system (eTV) and a drive train for a motor vehicle, especially a plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV), and is configured to perform a method for electric torque distribution (electric torq...