ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,981, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TRICKSTUFF GMBH (Pfaffenweiler, Germany).

"Wheel component with a fixing ring for attaching a brake disk device to a bicycle hub" was invented by Klaus Liedler (Solden, Germany) and Christoph Schedel (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel component with a fixing ring for attaching a brake disk to a hub shell of a bicycle hub, and with a securing unit for securing the fixing ring, wherein the ring includes a radially-extending fixing unit, and a threaded axially-extending tube unit, to screw the thread of the threaded tube unit on the hub shell, and to attach the brake disk to...