ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,076, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to DT SWISS INC. (Grand Junction, Colo.).
"Hub, in particular for bicycles" was invented by Stefan Spahr (Lengnau, Switzerland) and Nicholas Omlin (Rapperswil, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle hub with an axle, a shell, a rotor with a rotor body and a freewheel device with, a hub-side toothed disk device coupled to the hub shell, and a rotor-side toothed disk device interacting therewith and coupled to the rotor body, to drivingly couple the rotor to the hub shell in the driving direction and decouple from one another when freewheeling. The toothed disk devices include an end t...