US Patent Issued to SHIMANO on Sept. 1 for "Bicycle operating apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,739, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SHIMANO INC. (Sakai, Japan).

"Bicycle operating apparatus" was invented by Takafumi Nishino (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle operating apparatus includes an operating member, a hydraulic unit, an electrical switch, a wireless transmitter, a base member, and an additional operating member. The electrical switch is configured to be activated by an input operation from a user. The wireless transmitter is electrically coupled to the electrical switch and is configured to wirelessly transmit a signal to an additional bicycle component in response to the input operation. Th...