US Patent Issued to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES on March 17 for "Coasting operation for a vehicle with a hybrid drive" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,831, issued on March 17, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Coasting operation for a vehicle with a hybrid drive" was invented by Stefan Lauer (Munich), Srinivasa Sunil Reddy (Munich), Simon Baensch (Munich) and Magdalena Vieracker (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a method for operating a hybrid drive train for a motor vehicle having an output shaft from an internal combustion engine releasably connected to a shaft of an electric traction machine via a first clutch, wherein the shaft of the electric traction machine is releasably connected to a transmission input shaft...