US Patent Issued to SRAM DEUTSCHLAND on March 17 for "Bicycle torque sensor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,946, issued on March 17, was assigned to SRAM DEUTSCHLAND GmbH (Schweinfurt, Germany).

"Bicycle torque sensor" was invented by Henrik Braedt (Dittelbrunn, Germany) and Sebastian Heyna (Dittelbrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric bicycle drive unit for arrangement in a bottom bracket region of a bicycle frame, coaxially to the bottom bracket, is provided. The drive unit includes a torque sensor device for measuring a rider total torque. Rider total torque may include left-hand rider torque and a right-hand rider torque. The drive unit may include a bottom bracket shaft, an electric motor device arranged coaxially ...