ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,327, issued on March 31.
"Race start gate assembly" was invented by Andrew Contes (Phoenix).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate assembly for a bicycle race start includes a plurality of gates, each mounted in a separate start position along a bar to move between a closed position and an open position. The bar is moveable between a first condition and a second condition. The assembly includes buttresses, each coupled to the bar to move between first positions and second positions in response to movement of the bar between the first condition and the second condition, wherein each buttress corresponds to a respective one of the gates...