ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,897, issued on July 21, was assigned to SRAM LLC (Chicago).

"Automatic lap marking" was invented by Brent Dimmig (Lancaster, Pa.), Cole Stoltzfus (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Stephen Winchell (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and William Tribble (New York City, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying a completed lap at a device is disclosed. An example method includes retrieving or defining lap initiation data that can include an initiation location and an initiation orientation. The method also includes retrieving or defining a location variance threshold for the initiation location and an orientation variance threshold for the in...