ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,263, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TIEN HSIN INDUSTRIES Co. LTD. (Taichung City, Taiwan).
"Bicycle fork structure" was invented by Fong-Syuan Gu (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Kuang-Yang Liao (Taichung City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle fork structure is a fork including a steerer tube, a first crown, and a second crown that are integrally formed as a monolithic unit. An end of the steerer tube opens along a vertical direction to form a slot with two openings that are respectively located on two sides of the slot. Another end of the steerer tube is connected to an end of the first crown and an end of the second c...