ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,501, issued on July 14, was assigned to Shimano Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Component for human-powered vehicle" was invented by Masanori Sakai (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component for a human-powered vehicle basically includes a transmission device, a shaft member and a speed increaser. The transmission device includes a plurality of transmission stages. The shaft member is spaced from an input rotational shaft of the human-powered vehicle and arranged on the shaft member. The speed increaser is configured to transmit a human driving force that is input to the input rotational shaft to the transmission device. The spee...