US Patent Issued to Porsche eBike Performance on July 28 for "Compact bicycle drive for an electrically drivable bicycle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,971, issued on July 28, was assigned to Porsche eBike Performance GmbH (Ottobrunn, Germany).

"Compact bicycle drive for an electrically drivable bicycle" was invented by Marc Kluge (Besigheim, Germany) and Jorg Aniol (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a bicycle drive includes a pedal crankshaft configured to input mechanical drive power, an electric machine coupleable to the pedal crankshaft configured to input electric drive power and/or output generator power and a Wolfrom transmission interposed in a torque flow between the electric machine and the pedal crankshaft."

The patent was filed on June 1,...