ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,468, issued on July 21, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for operating a drive assembly of an electric bicycle" was invented by Joseph Reck (Weil Im Schoenbuch, Germany) and Matthias Weinmann (Balingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a drive assembly of an electric bicycle is disclosed, wherein the drive assembly has a drive unit and a shift control which can be actuated in a controlled manner. The method includes (i) determining a current drive load of the drive unit, (ii) increasing a motor speed of the drive unit in a controlled manner to an engagement speed at which the...