US Patent Issued to DT SWISS on Oct. 27 for "Rim for an at least partially muscle-powered bicycle" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,873, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to DT SWISS INC. (Grand Junction, Colo.).

"Rim for an at least partially muscle-powered bicycle" was invented by Jean-Paul Victor Ballard (Thalwil, Switzerland), Andreas Henig (Biel, Switzerland) and Simon Hugentobler (Liebefeld, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rim, having a rim body with rim flanks, a rim well and a rim base, in which the flanks abut in the radially most inwardly point, and with opposed rim flanges, each extending from one of the flanks up to a radially most outwardly point, so that the rim flanges form opposed side walls with the flanks. The widest spot of the rim b...