US Patent Issued to STELLANTIS AUTO on Nov. 3 for "Method for controlling the starting of a heat engine in a vehicle equipped with a hybrid transmission" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,176, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to STELLANTIS AUTO SAS (Poissy, France).

"Method for controlling the starting of a heat engine in a vehicle equipped with a hybrid transmission" was invented by Ridouane Habbani (Asnieres sur Seine, France), Cedric Launay (Epone, France), Yohan Milhau (Orgeval, France) and Gaetan Rocq (La Boissiere Ecole, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for controlling the starting of an internal combustion engine (MT) is implemented in an electric hybrid vehicle having a powertrain (eGMP) comprising the internal combustion engine and a hybrid transmission system (eTR), the transmission system havin...