US Patent Issued to Bell Sports on July 21 for "Pivotable bicycle rack" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,342, issued on July 21, was assigned to Bell Sports Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Pivotable bicycle rack" was invented by Stefan Stahl (Carbondale, Colo.) and Tommy Knight (Brighton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bike carrier that retains the wheels of a bike in a tray between pivoting retention arms with ratchets that hold the arms against the tires. In embodiments, a retention arm pivot lock acts on a stay between each wheel retention arm and the tray to which it is attached, wherein the pivot ratchet is configured to allow the wheel retention arm to pivot through a reflex angle to provide inward pivoting of the wheel retention ...