US Patent Issued to Cummins on Sept. 1 for "Method and system for controlling a powertrain in a hybrid vehicle" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,623, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Method and system for controlling a powertrain in a hybrid vehicle" was invented by Ke Li (Columbus, Ind.), Kenneth M. Follen (Greenwood, Ind.), Anant Puri (Columbus, Ind.), John P. Kresse III (Columbus, Ind.) and Apurva Arvind Chunodkar (Greenwood, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for a powertrain power management in a vehicle with an electric motor, and an engine are disclosed. The methods and systems involve a powertrain that is operatively coupled to the engine and the electric motor, and an optimizer module operatively coupled to the p...