US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 12 for "Methods and system for hybrid vehicle adaptive motor utilization" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,652, issued on May 12, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and system for hybrid vehicle adaptive motor utilization" was invented by Brendan Diamond (Naples, Fla.), Joseph F. Kucharski (Livonia, Mich.), Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), Lars Niklas Pettersson (Novi, Mich.), Rajib Saha (Lasalle, Canada) and Andrew Brown (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a hybrid vehicle that operates in charge depletion and charge sustaining modes is described. In one example, fractions of driver demand power that are generated via an internal combustion engine and an electric machi...