US Patent Issued to Classified Cycling on Oct. 27 for "Bicycle gear changing apparatus" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,055, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Classified Cycling BV (Antwerp, Belgium).

"Bicycle gear changing apparatus" was invented by Roell Marie Van Druten (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gear changing apparatus comprises a controller operatively coupled to a first switch to receive a first shift signal and to a second switch to receive a second shift signal. The controller controls at least one of a first and second gear changing device of a bicycle transmission to change a transmission ratio of the bicycle transmission to a next higher or lower transmission ratio in accordance with at least one synchro-shift...