ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,420, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Group of motor vehicles" was invented by Thomas Breu (Edling, Germany), Josip Durmis (Poing, Germany), Wolfram Haug (Sauerlach, Germany) and Joerg Kutzschbach (Petershausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a group of motor vehicles of one vehicle type, hybrid-drive motor vehicles are derived from the electric-drive motor vehicles. By using the architecture of electric-drive motor vehicles for the hybrid-drive motor vehicles, the architecture has a floor pan subassembly that sits in a higher position in comparison to that in motor vehicles having ...