ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,347, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Koch Bein LLC (McKinney, Texas).

"Slope sensitive pitch adjustor for bicycle seat" was invented by Bradley Craig Davis (Boulder, Colo.) and Craig Stephen Etchegoyen (Newport Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slope sensitive pitch adjustor for a bicycle seat includes a rotatable seat support, a gravity sensor mounted thereto, a means for rotating the rotatable seat support, and an automated controller configured to drive the rotating means in response to an acceleration signal received from the gravity sensor. The automated controller stores data representing an initial condition of...