ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,422, issued on June 2.
"Electric bicycle self-recharging system" was invented by David Michael Berro (Windsor, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electric bicycle self-recharging system is intended to provide continuous generation of electricity from the rotation of an electric bicycle's wheel to recharge the electric battery. To accomplish this, a permanent magnet generator is rotatably connected to the corresponding wheel of the electric bicycle using a belt that transfers the torque from the wheel to the permanent magnet generator. The generated Alternating Current (AC) electricity is then converted into Direct Current (DC) ...