ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,677, issued on Sept. 9.
"Vehicle wheel spoke connection" was invented by Raphael Schlanger (Wilton, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle wheel having a rim, a hub, a plurality of spokes extending between said rim and said hub, rim and/or hub includes a spoke bed wall with an outboard bed surface, an inboard bed surface, and a spoke hole therethrough having a longitudinally inboard entrance. The spoke includes: a first spoke portion and a second spoke portion longitudinally inboard of the first spoke portion and laterally outboard of the first spoke portion, including a transition surface therebetween. The spoke extends thr...