ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,456, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for operating a drive unit of an electric bicycle" was invented by Merlin Martin Manewald (Reutlingen, Germany), Christian Reisige (Tuebingen, Germany), Sebastian Eberle (Tuebingen, Germany) and Joseph Reck (Filderstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a drive unit of an electric bicycle is disclosed. The method includes determining a temporary actual torque curve of a driver torque generated by a muscle force of a driver of the electric bicycle. The method further includes estimating a future torque curve by extrapol...