ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,944, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Controller for operating a road-coupled hybrid vehicle" was invented by Florian Schnappauf (Hattenhofen, Germany) and Andreas Treffler (Adelzhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device is provided for operating a road-coupled hybrid vehicle, which is equipped with an electronic control unit, a first drive unit paired with a primary axle, and a second drive unit paired with a secondary axle. The control unit is designed to receive input variables including a specified sum target creep torque and a command to switch over from the single-a...