US Patent Issued to DT SWISS on Oct. 20 for "Bicycle component with a cockpit unit" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,264, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to DT SWISS INC. (Grand Junction, Colo.).

"Bicycle component with a cockpit unit" was invented by Andreas Henig (Biel, Switzerland), Lukas Kuhn (Lengnau, Switzerland) and Marcus Kern (Wangen an der Aare, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle component including a cockpit unit with at least two cockpit modules. A first cockpit module is designed as a stem module. A second cockpit module is designed as a handlebar module. The cockpit modules can be coupled with each other in different ways to enable different seating positions with the cockpit unit. One of the cockpit modules includes...