US Patent Issued to SRAM on Feb. 10 for "Reinforcing device for reinforcing a bicycle frame, and bicycle frame having reinforcing device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,361, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SRAM LLC (Chicago).

"Reinforcing device for reinforcing a bicycle frame, and bicycle frame having reinforcing device" was invented by Jonni Schaefer (Hannover, Germany) and Christian Wurmbaeck (Jesberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reinforcement device for reinforcing an electric bicycle frame at least in a region of a tube cutout of a bicycle frame tube which accommodates an energy storage. The reinforcement device includes a first reinforcement element which extends axially in the bicycle frame tube and/or extends at a certain angle to the bicycle frame tube, and at least one seco...