US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on March 11 for "Method for controlling a hybrid drive system for a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,698, issued on March 11, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for controlling a hybrid drive system for a motor vehicle" was invented by Jonathan Zeibig (Aalen, Germany), Nils Tonius (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Peter Fritzmann (Motzingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a hybrid drive system for a motor vehicle involves, in an operation in which both the internal combustion engine and the electric machine introduce drive torques into the hybrid gearbox to drive the drive wheel, employing third limit torques for the third gearbox gear are provided in a first mode, and sec...