US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on June 3 for "Method and control device for automatically setting an operating mode of a hybrid vehicle, and hybrid vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,267, issued on June 3, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and control device for automatically setting an operating mode of a hybrid vehicle, and hybrid vehicle" was invented by Sebastian Baudisch (Munich), Johannes Dirnecker (Munich), Marcel Ewers (Dachau, Germany), Harald Hofmeier (Eching, Germany), Christian Schmid (Munich) and Achim Sonntag (Olching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically setting an operating mode of a hybrid vehicle includes determining whether a distance to the destination is greater than a purely electrically travelable range of the hybrid vehicle, wherein t...