US Patent Issued to Vitesco Technologies on July 7 for "Method for changing from electrical operation to hybrid operation in a vehicle hybrid drive and vehicle hybrid drive" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,662, issued on July 7, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Method for changing from electrical operation to hybrid operation in a vehicle hybrid drive and vehicle hybrid drive" was invented by Martin Jehle (Pettendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for changing from electrical operation to hybrid operation in a vehicle hybrid drive is provided. The method includes detecting an increase in a target traction power and starting the internal combustion engine. When the internal combustion engine starts, the method includes outputting a positive torque by generating an increasing generator po...