US Patent Issued to Shimano on Oct. 20 for "Bicycle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,262, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Shimano Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Bicycle control device" was invented by Masahiro Honda (Sakai, Japan) and Yasuhiro Tsuchizawa (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device is used with a human-powered vehicle including a vehicle component and at least first and second detectors. The first detector detects first information of the human-powered vehicle and the second detector detects second information of the human-powered vehicle. The control device includes an electronic controller that controls the vehicle component in accordance with outputs of the first detector and the second...