US Patent Issued to SRAM on Nov. 3 for "Torque sensor for an ebike system" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,349, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SRAM LLC (Chicago).

"Torque sensor for an ebike system" was invented by Sage Hahn (Chicago), Sebastian Heyna (Dittelbrunn, Germany), Henrik Braedt (Dittelbrunn, Germany) and William Barrett Lee (Kirchlauter, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torque sensor for a bicycle includes a coil. The torque sensor may include a support that is disposable around a device of the bicycle, such that the support and the device of the bicycle are separated by an air gap. The torque sensor may also include an excitation coil supported by the support, and a sense coil supported by the support at a distance a...