US Patent Issued to Arris Composites on May 27 for "Methods for fabricating thermoplastic-based composite spokes and spoke assemblies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,585, issued on May 27, was assigned to Arris Composites Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Methods for fabricating thermoplastic-based composite spokes and spoke assemblies" was invented by Erick Davidson (Piedmont, Calif.), Zachary Aaron August (San Mateo, Calif.) and Eric Forrester (El Cerrito, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fabricating thermoplastic bicycle spokes that securely couple to an end fitting, at one or both ends thereof, via a non-threaded, mechanical interlocking geometry. A spoke body is fabricated from thermoplastic resin, and then thermoplastic material is added, in situ (using the internal geometry of th...