ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,828, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for operating a vehicle" was invented by Matthew David Hall (Marbach am Neckar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a vehicle comprises operating an electric machine and an internal combustion engine as the drive units, by which a total power is generated in synchronous operation for the driving of the vehicle, wherein one portion of the power of the electric machine and one portion of the power of the internal combustion engine is set in dependence on the temperature of at least one of the drive units in the total power for the ...