US Patent Issued to enviolo on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for automatic configuration and automatic calibration of continuously variable transmissions and bicycles having continuously variable transmissions" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,546, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to enviolo B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Systems and methods for automatic configuration and automatic calibration of continuously variable transmissions and bicycles having continuously variable transmissions" was invented by Wayne Leroy Contello (Austin, Texas), Brian Benjamin Sweet (Leander, Texas), Richard Hilgart (Bad Nauheim, Germany), Jeffrey A. Birchak (San Diego) and Kevin Alan Gust (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuously variable transmission on a bicycle may be automatically configured with little or no assistance from a user. Optical scanning devices, RFIDs, and other informa...