US Patent Issued to Mahle International on July 14 for "Electric drive device for a bicycle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,499, issued on July 14, was assigned to Mahle International GmbH (Germany).

"Electric drive device for a bicycle" was invented by Christian Koetz (Dresden, Germany), Matthias Koop (Neufahrn, Germany) and Christian Wirth (Mossinning, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive device for a bicycle is disclosed. The drive device includes an electric motor comprising a motor shaft, a driven shaft, and a planetary gear set that drive-connects the motor shaft with the drive shaft. The planetary gear set includes a sun gear, at least two planetary gears, an internal gear, and a planet gear carrier, on which the at least two planet gears...