US Patent Issued to MAN Truck & Bus on Nov. 11 for "Device and method for energy recovery for an electrically driven motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,364, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MAN Truck & Bus SE (Munich).

"Device and method for energy recovery for an electrically driven motor vehicle" was invented by Alexander Schydlo (Munich) and Thomas Landsherr (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a device for energy recovery for an electrically driven motor vehicle. The device includes an electric drive unit for driving the motor vehicle and a permanent brake deice which is designed as a hydrodynamic retarder and is or can be drivingly connected to the electric drive unit. A waste heat recovery device has an expansion machine which is or can be...