US Patent Issued to MAGNA Powertrain on Dec. 2 for "Method and control for a drive system having four-wheel drive" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,876, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MAGNA Powertrain GmbH & Co KG (Lannach, Austria).

"Method and control for a drive system having four-wheel drive" was invented by Stefan Laimgruber (Graz, Austria), Johannes Fuchs (Graz, Austria), Daniel Lindvai-Soos (Graz, Austria), Markus Thier (Vienna) and Simon Kaimer (Heiligenkreuz am Waasen, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for operating a drive train comprising an internal combustion engine or an electric machine as a primary drive and an electric machine as a secondary drive, wherein the electric machine is detachably coupled, together with an inverter and contr...