ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,053, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TRICKSTUFF GMBH (Pfaffenweiler, Germany).
"Wheel component for an at least partially muscle-powered bicycle and method of manufacturing a brake arrangement" was invented by Moritz Duscheleit (Freiburg, Germany) and Christoph Schedel (Freiburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic brake arrangement for a bicycle with a transmitting unit with a brake lever, and a cylinder housing with a cylinder space, and with a piston unit displaceably received in the cylinder space. The brake lever is operatively coupled with the piston unit by means of an actuating mechanism. The cylinder housing ...