US Patent Issued to SRAM DEUTSCHLAND on Aug. 25 for "Methods for controlling shifting of a bicycle" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,545, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SRAM DEUTSCHLAND GmbH (Schweinfurt, Germany).

"Methods for controlling shifting of a bicycle" was invented by Dominique Fuss (Euerdorf, Germany), Sven Baumann (Grettstadt, Germany), Sebastian Dueweling (Isny, Germany) and Kevin Wesling (Lombard, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling shifting of a bicycle includes identifying a first gear shift command for a first shift having a first shift direction and identifying a second gear shift command for a second shift having a second shift direction. The method includes determining a time period between the identifying of the fi...