ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,382, issued on June 3, was assigned to SRAM LLC (Chicago).
"Control device for a bicycle" was invented by Neil Swanson (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Doug Mahoney (Park Ridge, Ill.) and Ryan Grimm (Littleton, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device mountable to a handlebar of a bicycle includes a housing, a lever coupled to and pivotable relative to the housing, and a master cylinder portion supported by the housing. The master cylinder portion has a fluid cylinder. The fluid cylinder has a first end and a second end opposite the first end with a cylindrical wall therebetween. An opening extends through the master cylinder p...