ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,345, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Hybrid drive system" was invented by Carsten Gitt (Stuttgart, Germany), Tobias Haerter (Stuttgart, Germany), Peter Hahn (Stuttgart, Germany), Andreas Kolb (Wernau, Germany), Klaus Riedl (Tubingen, Germany), Tobias Schilder (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Jonathan Zeibig (Aalen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid drive system includes a first and second spur gear component transmission that drift via a countershaft. A planetary gear set is arranged coaxially to a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine. A first shaft is couplable with the ...