US Patent Issued to SHIMANO on April 7 for "Bicycle derailleur and charging cable for bicycle derailleur" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,023, issued on April 7, was assigned to SHIMANO INC. (Sakai, Japan).

"Bicycle derailleur and charging cable for bicycle derailleur" was invented by Akihiro Hasegawa (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle derailleur includes a derailleur body and a charging port configured to be detachably coupled to a charging cable to charge an electric power source. The charging port includes an electric terminal. The electric terminal includes a plurality of electric contact surfaces being disposed along a first longitudinal direction of the charging port."

The patent was filed on Feb. 7, 2024, under Application No. 18/434,80...