US Patent Issued to CAMPAGNOLO on Feb. 10 for "Bicycle hydraulic braking system of the disc type and related components and methods" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,358, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CAMPAGNOLO S.R.L. (Vicenza, Italy).

"Bicycle hydraulic braking system of the disc type and related components and methods" was invented by Mario Meggiolan (Creazzo, Italy), Filippo Bove (Padua, Italy) and Stefano Rubini (Monticello Conte Otto, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic disc braking system is disclosed. The system has a manually operated control device for a cyclist to issue a braking command. The system has a master cylinder assembly having a membrane dividing the hydraulic fluid tank into a variable volume filled chamber and a complementarily variable volume empty chambe...