ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,685, issued on May 13, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Hybrid system" was invented by Takashi Kurita (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Asakura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryo Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid system for a vehicle includes a drive unit provided with a motor for driving wheels and a power generation unit provided with an engine and a generator driven by the engine. The power generation unit is provided so as to be adjacent to the drive unit in a separated state. One of the drive unit and the power generation unit is mounted on a vehicle body via a first mount member at a low...