US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on July 21 for "Hybrid drive system for a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,257, issued on July 21, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Hybrid drive system for a motor vehicle" was invented by Thomas Lechthaler (Stuttgart, Germany), Kai Heukelbach (Koengen, Germany), Bernhard Ziegler (Rechberghausen, Germany), Jan Velthaus (Stuttgart, Germany), Lukas Rube (Pluederhausen, Germany) and Bernd Koppitz (Winterbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid drive system for a motor vehicle has an input shaft via which torques provided by an internal combustion engine can be introduced into the hybrid drive system, a drive shaft disposed coaxially with the input shaft, an electric en...