US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on Dec. 16 for "Method for operating a hybrid drive system of a motor vehicle, hybrid drive system, and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,021, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for operating a hybrid drive system of a motor vehicle, hybrid drive system, and motor vehicle" was invented by Stefan Paukner (Wolfsburg, Germany), Falk-Christian Von Ceumern-Lindenstjerna (Braunschweig, Germany) and Johannes Westendorf (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a hybrid drive system of a motor vehicle, in which an internal combustion engine with a belt-driven starter generator coupled thereto is operated in an overrun mode for braking of the motor vehicle, wherein, in order to avoid a delivering of ...