ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,077, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to DT SWISS INC. (Grand Junction, Colo.).
"Hub, in particular for bicycles" was invented by Martin Walthert (Aarberg, Switzerland), Stefan Spahr (Lengnau, Switzerland) and Nicholas Omlin (Rapperswil, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle hub, including a hub axle, a hub shell, a threaded ring, a rotor, and a freewheel device, wherein the freewheel device comprises a hub-side toothed disk device and an interacting rotor-side toothed disk device, each including an end toothing for engagement with one another, and biased to an engagement position. The threaded ring includes an outer co...