US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Sept. 16 for "Hybrid drive system for a motor vehicle, in particular for a car" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,414, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Hybrid drive system for a motor vehicle, in particular for a car" was invented by Tobias Schilder (Ludwigsburg, 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 having a crankshaft, an electric motor having a rotor, and a gearbox having a cylindrical gear unit with an input shaft coupled or coupleable to the crankshaft for conjoint rotation and an output shaft arranged parallel to the input shaft. The gearbox includes a planetary gear with a first element, a second element, and...