US Patent Issued to AUDI on May 26 for "Method for operating a drive device for a motor vehicle and corresponding drive device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,077, issued on May 26, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for operating a drive device for a motor vehicle and corresponding drive device" was invented by Matthew David Hall (Marbach am Neckar, Germany), Guido Schiedt (Leutenbach, Germany) and Andreas Zeyer (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a drive unit for a motor vehicle. The drive unit has at least one internal combustion engine, an electric machine which is or may be drivingly coupled to the internal combustion engine, and a start-up clutch, via which the internal combustion engine and the electric machine are drivingly c...