ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,059, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NINGBO GEELY ROYAL ENGINE COMPONENTS Co. LTD (Ningbo, China), AUROBAY TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Ningbo, China) and ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP Co. LTD (Hangzhou, China).

"Parallel start control method and system for hybrid electric vehicle, and hybrid electric vehicle" was invented by Junchao Jing (Zhejiang, China), Yiqiang Liu (Zhejiang, China), Weishan Huang (Zhejiang, China), Jun Yang (Zhejiang, China), Botao Zuo (Zhejiang, China), Xuemei Yu (Zhejiang, China), Ruiping Wang (Zhejiang, China) and Ingo Scholten (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a parallel start control m...