US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Aug. 12 for "Hybrid drive system for a motor vehicle, and a motor vehicle, in particular a motor car" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,237, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Hybrid drive system for a motor vehicle, and a motor vehicle, in particular a motor car" was invented by Tobias Schilder (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Klaus Riedl (Tubingen, Germany), Jorg Muller (Chemnitz, Germany), Rico Resch (Chemnitz, Germany) and Martin Stocker (Ortsteil Neuwurschnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid drive system for a motor vehicle includes an internal combustion engine supplying first torques via a drive shaft to drive the motor vehicle and an electric machine having a rotor via which second drive torques can be sup...