US Patent Issued to Audi on Aug. 25 for "Method for operating a vehicle and for decoupling a hybrid drive train from an energy supply of the vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,278, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Audi AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for operating a vehicle and for decoupling a hybrid drive train from an energy supply of the vehicle" was invented by Andreas GaBner (Abensberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle comprises a combustion engine, an electric machine, a front axle with front driving wheels, a rear axle with rear driving wheels, at least one electric module, at least one primary power transmission device and at least one secondary power transmission device. The electric machine is connected across the at least one primary power transmission device to at least one...