US Patent Issued to Audi on June 16 for "Method for driving at least one axle of a vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,565, issued on June 16, was assigned to Audi AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for driving at least one axle of a vehicle" was invented by Florian Bittner (Gaimersheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for driving wheels of at least one axle of a vehicle may include dictating a setpoint for a torque to be provided by at least one drive unit for a given operating range, verifying a driving mode in which a better efficiency is achieved for the given operating range, and driving the wheels in the driving mode in which the better efficiency is achieved. The at least one drive unit may be selected from a first drive unit an...