ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,270, issued on April 21, was assigned to CIXI (Annecy, France).
"Crankset with haptic feedback generator" was invented by Pierre Francis (Annecy, France), Nicolas Ohlmann (Annecy, France) and Benjamin Pion (Chapeiry, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crankset includes a haptic feedback generator connected to the crankset and configured to deliver a resistive torque to the crankset. The crankset includes a haptic control unit that regulates the set rate by estimating a power applied to the pedal by rotating it and by decreasing or increasing the set rate so that said set rate increases with the power applied to the crankset."
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