ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,697, issued on March 11, was assigned to Jaguar Land Rover Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).

"Torque distribution strategies for hybrid vehicles" was invented by Lee Adcock (Hardwick, Great Britain), David Copp (Coventry, Great Britain), Christina O'Sullivan (Warwick, Great Britain), Matt Sullivan (Hinkley, Great Britain) and Olivier Roques (Banbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present invention relate to a method and to a control system for a vehicle, the vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine configured to provide torque to a first axle of the vehicle for generating first axle wheel torque, ...