ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,347, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TRICKSTUFF GMBH (Pfaffenweiler, Germany).

"Hydraulic brake arrangement for an at least partially muscle-powered bicycle" was invented by Christoph Schedel (Freiburg, Germany) and Klaus Liedler (Solden, 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. In the tank space of an equalizing reservoir device, a membrane unit is disposed which subdivides the tank space into a fluid space for the hydraulic fluid and...