ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,344, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Solutions GmbH (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Electrical converter in a hybrid vehicle indicating intermittent cylinder operation" was invented by Jan Boyde (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and Marcus Fackler (Ravensburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a hybrid drive includes the steps of: providing an internal combustion engine, an electric machine, a converter, and a drive shaft, the internal combustion engine including a combustion engine, the converter being electrically connected to the electric machine, the internal combustion engine and the electric mac...