US Patent Issued to SRAM DEUTSCHLAND on July 28 for "Shifting bicycle chain having uniform offset chain links, and chain wheel assembly cooperating therewith" (Portuguese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,927, issued on July 28, was assigned to SRAM DEUTSCHLAND GmbH (Schweinfurt, Germany).

"Shifting bicycle chain having uniform offset chain links, and chain wheel assembly cooperating therewith" was invented by Matthias Reinbold (Wuerzburg, Germany), Sebastian Andres (Baiersdorf, Germany), Pedro Miguel Nunes dos Santos (Coimbra, Portugal), Luis Miguel Mendes Figueiredo (Antanhol, Portugal) and Joao Carlos Miquelao Santos (Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle chain having a plurality of chain links, the chain plates of which are formed and arranged in an offset manner along a longitudinal chain path suc...