ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,016, issued on March 18, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Hybrid drive system for a motor vehicle" was invented by Kai Heukelbach (Koengen, Germany), Bernd Koppitz (Winterbach, Germany), Bernhard Ziegler (Rechberghausen, Germany), Jan Velthaus (Stuttgart, Germany), Lukas Rube (Pluederhausen, Germany) and Thomas Lechthaler (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid drive system for a motor vehicle has an input shaft which is rotatably mounted around an axis of rotation, via which torques provided by an internal combustion machine can be introduced into the hybrid drive system, an output d...