US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Oct. 28 for "Belt drive for driving a motor vehicle, in particular a motorcycle, and motor vehicle, in particular a motorcycle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,333, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Belt drive for driving a motor vehicle, in particular a motorcycle, and motor vehicle, in particular a motorcycle" was invented by Matthias Halfer (Munich) and Franz Wimmer (Spatzenhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt drive for driving a motor vehicle, comprising a first belt pulley which can be driven by a drive motor of the motor vehicle, a belt which at least partly wraps around the first belt pulley and can thus be driven by the first belt pulley, a second belt pulley which is at least partly wrapped by the belt and can thus be driven ...