US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 1 for "Control device and method for operating a hybrid drive" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,231, issued on July 1, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Control device and method for operating a hybrid drive" was invented by Michael Friedrich (Eching, Germany) and Markus Nussbaumer (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid drive includes an internal combustion engine, an electrical machine, at least one torsional vibration damper, and an electronic control unit. The torsional vibration damper is designed for optimal vibration damping during operation of the internal combustion engine with the full number of cylinders of the internal combustion engine switched-on in internal-combustion-engine mode. The ...